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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Saturday Night Live Season 0 Episode 218 - The 2024 SNL Election Special
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    S0:E218

    On the eve of Election 2024, the iconic late-night program highlights fan-favorite political sketches from its 50 seasons.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Saturday Night Live Season 0 Episode 219 - A Saturday Night Live Thanksgiving
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    S0:E219

    The iconic late-night program will highlight memorable Thanksgiving-themed sketches from its 50 seasons.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Saturday Night Live Season 0 Episode 220 - A Saturday Night Live Christmas
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    S0:E220

    A two-hour highlights collection of SNL's holiday-themed sketches.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Saturday Night Live Season 0 Episode 33 - The Best of Tom Hanks
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    S0:E33

    This volume features Tom Hanks' work on Saturday Night Live, from his first appearance on the ill-fated '85-'86 season through the late nineties, but the majority of the material deals with the Hartman-Lovitz years, my personal favorite cast. Hanks and Lovitz, in particular, are paired quite often, especially in their frequent "Girl Watchers" sketches and an audience interview segment with Lovitz asking Hanks who his favorite performer on the show was (and he doesn't stop until he hears Jon Lovitz). Some of the stuff is familiar--the Wayne's World represented here is the Aerosmith one, and that and "Jew, not a Jew" were available on the videotape. However, there are a LOT of sketches here that will likely not see the light of day again, like Hanks, Damon Wayans, and others playing stand-up comics who deliver every line in their lives like a stand-up act, the really funny "Five-Timers" sketch, which centers around an exclusive club where five-time hosts reside (with SNL poking a little fun at its rarefied image), and a sketch where Hanks plays a loving husband that occasionally fantasizes that his wife is dead.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Saturday Night Live Season 0 Episode 155 - Saturday Night Live Backstage
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S0:E155

    Saturday Night Live Backstage is a 2011 documentary comedy TV movie.

    Director:Kenneth Bowser
    Writer:Kenneth Bowser

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  6. Saturday Night Live Season 0 Episode 25 - The Best of Mike Myers
    7.0/10(10 votes)

    S0:E25

    PARTY ON as Saturday Night Live celebrates Mike Myers' six awesome seasons as a regular on the show. Compiled by the producers of SNL, Mike Myers' lineup of characters totally rules: Wayne Campbell of Wayne's World; Dieter, host of Sprockets; Linda Richman, hostess of Coffee Talk; Simon; Phillip, the Hyper-Hypo kid; Ron Wood

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Saturday Night Live Season 0 Episode 135 - Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again
    7.0/10(3 votes)

    S0:E135

    Saturday Night Live in the 2000s is a two-hour documentary television special that showcases the years of Saturday Night Live from 2000–2009. It features interviews with the cast and crew from those years, and aired on NBC on April 15, 2010.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Saturday Night Live Season 0 Episode 38 - The Best of John Belushi
    6.9/10(14 votes)

    S0:E38

    During his time at SNL, original cast member John Belushi created some of the most memorable characters in television history. One of the most brilliant comedic performers of all time, Belushi's rebellious presence and intensity changed the face of comedy forever. From classic original characters like the Blues Brothers, King Bee and Samurai Warrior to incomparable impressions of Joe Cocker, Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor and more, you can experience the best of Belushi for years to come.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Saturday Night Live Season 0 Episode 147 - The Women of Saturday Night Live
    4.5/10(2 votes)

    S0:E147

    Tina Fey, Rachel Dratch, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kristen Wiig, Nora Dunn, Laraine Newman, Molly Shannon, Ana Gasteyer, and Cheri Oteri come together to present new material and relive the best moments of SNL featuring the female cast members.

    Directors:Beth McCarthy-Miller, Dave Wilson, Don Roy King, Paul Miller, Jorma Taccone
    Writers:Paula Pell, Emily Spivey, Seth Meyers, John Solomon

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  10. Saturday Night Live Season 0 Episode 48 - The Best of Saturday TV Funhouse
    3.2/10(4 votes)

    S0:E48

    Sometimes controversial but always hilarious, Robert Smigel's "TV Funhouse" cartoons have contained some of Saturday Night Live's most memorable material in recent years. Ace and Gary, "The Ambiguously Gay Duo" (voiced by Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert), host this critically acclaimed collection, which features hits like "X-Presidents," "Saddam and Osama," "The Narrator That Ruined Christmas," "Smurfette," "The New Adventures of Mr. T," "Fun With Real Audio" and more, with appearances by the full cast of SNL.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Saturday Night Live Season 0 Episode 49 - Digital Short: My Testicles
    1.0/10(1 votes)

    S0:E49

    Friends in the early 1990s (Kenan Thompson, Forte, and Parnell) discuss the music video by pop stars Ariel (Andy Samberg) and Efrim (Tom Hanks), where we see the lyrics consist of constantly begging for their testicles not to be harmed, in a parody of Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy" and C+C Music Factory's "Gonna Make You Sweat". Also, Fred Armisen plays the guitar player, Jorma Taccone appears as a backup dancer, and Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph are women in the video.

    Director:Akiva Schaffer
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Saturday Night Live Season 0 Episode 66 - Digital Short: Business Meeting
    1.0/10(1 votes)

    S0:E66

    A corporate executive (Rainn Wilson) leads a meeting to take ideas on how to save his failing company, and hears suggestions from an increasingly bizarre set of employees, including a gigantic turkey sub and Arcade Fire. Upon reaching the end of the meeting, Wilson receives a phone call, seemingly informing him that the office building is about to be blown up. Then, the office building explodes, killing all of them inside.

    Director:Jorma Taccone
    Writers:Jorma Taccone, Seth Meyers

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  13. Saturday Night Live Season 0 Episode 191 - Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special
    1.0/10(1 votes)

    S0:E191

    Saturday Night Live celebrates 40 years in a star-studded 3-and-a-half hour live special featuring appearances from former and current cast members, past hosts and guest stars.

    Director:Don Roy King
    Writers:Paula Pell, Lorne Michaels, Erik Kenward, Sarah Schneider, Steve Higgins, Jorma Taccone, Emily Spivey, Tina Fey, Seth Meyers, John Mulaney, Bryan Tucker, James Anderson, Robert Smigel, Marc Shaiman, Akiva Schaffer, Tom Schiller, Fred Armisen, Jeff Richmond, Chris Kelly, Michael Shoemaker

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  14. Saturday Night Live Season 0 Episode 23 - The Best of Phil Hartman
    0.5/10(1 votes)

    S0:E23

    His shocking death was a tragedy, but his SNL legacy is a treasure. Here are Phil Hartman's unforgettable characterizations of Bill Clinton, Phil Donahue, Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer, Frank Sinatra, Frankenstein, Ronald Reagan, Barbara Bush and many others.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Saturday Night Live Season 0 Episode 1 - Mardi Gras Special
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S0:E1

    One of the few episodes to air from a location outside of NBC's studios at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York, the Mardi Gras Special was broadcast live from New Orleans on Mardi Gras 1977. It was hosted by Randy Newman, who also performed songs, and featured a number of special guests, including Buck Henry, Eric Idle, Cindy Williams, and Henry Winkler.

    Directors:Dave Wilson, Gary Weis
    Writers:Lorne Michaels, Tom Davis, Anne Beatts, Tom Schiller, Alan Zweibel, Al Franken, Michael O'Donoghue, Herbert Sargent, Rosie Shuster, Jim Downey, Marilyn Suzanne Miller, Bruce McCall, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Bill Murray

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  16. Saturday Night Live Season 0 Episode 2 - Things We Did Last Summer
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S0:E2

    One week, instead of the beloved, in-studio zaniness of SNL, viewers were treated to this bizarre collection of short docu/mocu-mentary films. Lorraine Newman details her surreal adventures on a tropical vacation. Bill Murray semi-seriously quits comedy for the chance to play minor-league baseball. At the end of summer he again "retires" a la Lou Gehrig. Gilda Radner picks up some extra cash by offering guided tours of her New York City apartment. Jake and Elwood Blues (John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd) rip up the stage on a genuine concert tour. Garrett Morris' vignette has, sadly, faded from memory.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Don Novello

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  17. Saturday Night Live Season 0 Episode 3 - SNL Film Festival
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S0:E3

    A clip show hosted by Billy Crystal which featured SNL's best pretaped sketches and short films from 1981 to 1985, including short films by Albert Brooks, Gary Weis, Tom Schiller, and Christopher Guest.

    Director:Dave Wilson
    Writers:Herbert Sargent, Jim Downey, Harry Shearer, Nate Herman, Eliot Wald, Bob Tischler, Andrew Kurtzman, Andy Breckman, Kevin Kelton, Jim Belushi, Larry David, Christopher Guest, Rich Hall, Billy Crystal, Martin Short, Rob Riley

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  18. Saturday Night Live Season 0 Episode 4 - Saturday Night Live 15th Anniversary Special
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S0:E4

    An anniversary show celebrating SNL's 15th season. Chevy Chase returned to reprise his "opening fall" bit in the cold open and Tom Hanks performed the opening monologue. Prince and Paul Simon performed. The show featured a number of special guests, including SNL stars Kevin Nealon, Phil Hartman, Dan Aykroyd, Jon Lovitz, Jane Curtin, Christopher Guest, Martin Short, and Buck Henry, as well as others including Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Mary Tyler Moore, O.J. Simpson, and Bruce Willis.

    Director:Dave Wilson
    Writers:Robert Smigel, Tom Schiller, Al Franken, Michael O'Donoghue, Herbert Sargent, Jim Downey

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  19. Saturday Night Live Season 0 Episode 5 - 2nd Annual Saturday Night Live Mother's Day Special
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S0:E5

    A Mother's Day special featuring the SNL ensemble with their real-life mothers as well as a compilation of sketches from the 1992-93 season.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Saturday Night Live Season 0 Episode 6 - The Best of Saturday Night Live: 1989 Annual
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S0:E6

    "Best of" anthology from the 1989 Season. Sketches include: Ft. Army Base, Mel Gibson Monolog, Toonces the Driving Cat, Geritech Commercial, Attitudes: Driftwood Sculpture, Big Red Commercial, Weekend Update (George Michael) and Dukakis After Dark.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Saturday Night Live Season 0 Episode 7 - The Bad Boys of Saturday Night Live
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S0:E7

    Adam Sandler, David Spade, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider and Chris Farley put together this hilarious Saturday Night Live sketch celebration! With each one of their memorable characters: Sandler's Opera Man, Spade's sarcastic news commenator, Rock's Nat X, Schneider's Richard the Copy Guy, and Farley's host of the Chris Farley Show.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Saturday Night Live Season 0 Episode 8 - Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S0:E8

    A TV special celebrating the 25th anniversary of Saturday Night Live. Before a celebrity audience, many of the former cast members and guest hosts return to perform their signature monologues and present a look back at some of the best comedy skits and musical numbers of the past two and a half decades.

    Directors:Beth McCarthy-Miller, James Signorelli
    Writers:Paula Pell, Steve Higgins, Tina Fey, Tom Davis, Anne Beatts, Robert Smigel, Michael Shoemaker, Al Franken, Michael O'Donoghue, Marilyn Suzanne Miller, Conan O'Brien, Dennis Miller, Jay Mohr, T. Sean Shannon, Paul Shaffer

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  23. Saturday Night Live Season 0 Episode 9 - The Best of Adam Sandler
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S0:E9

    Adam Sandler and his crazy cast of characters will put you in stiches. Witness Sandler's zaniest SNL moments including: Lucy, the Gap Girl, Brian, host of the "Denise Show", Canteen Boy, Bruce Springsteen, Opera Man, and Cajun Man.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Saturday Night Live Season 0 Episode 10 - The Best of Dana Carvey
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S0:E10

    Includes comic creations such as: Ross Perot, Johnny Carson, Garth Algar of Wayne's World, Church Lady, Hans of Hans & Franz, Jimmy Stewart, George Bush, and Robin Leach

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Saturday Night Live Season 0 Episode 11 - The Best of Steve Martin
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S0:E11

    No other person has been a guest on Saturday Night Live as many times as the inimitable Steve Martin. This collection gives us not only clips of some of the show's funniest moments, but also a sense of how the show has evolved from the 1970s.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 0 Ratings Summary

"The 2024 SNL Election Special" is the best rated episode of "Saturday Night Live" season 0. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/4/2024. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "A Saturday Night Live Thanksgiving".