Saturday Night Live has been an establishment on late-night tv for half a century. Although it’s endured via some fallow durations, it’s remained remarkably related and humorous for many of that point. And the longer SNL stays a fixture on NBC’s schedule, the bigger its unique forged looms in our collective popular culture recollections.

The exploits of that forged — Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtain, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, and Gilda Radner — of their earliest days are the topic of the movie Saturday Night. Directed by Jason Reitman (Juno, Ghostbusters: Afterlife), the movie tells the story of the 90 minutes previous to the very first taping of Saturday Night Live (which was known as NBC’s Saturday Night in these days), as sequence creator Lorne Michaels (performed by The Fabelmans’ Gabriel LaBelle) struggles to juggle a nervous community, insufficient studio amenities, and that gifted however tempestuous forged’s wants and quirks, all whereas preventing to get his imaginative and prescient for a brand new type of late-night comedy sequence onto the airwaves.

As depicted in Saturday Night, quite a bit occurs (and goes horribly flawed) within the hour and a half earlier than SNL made its fateful debut. Crew members stop, forged members almost get killed, and NBC virtually cancels the present fully. Sometimes, it looks like it couldn’t all presumably be true.

That’s as a result of it isn’t! Reitman’s movie condenses quite a lot of occasions that occurred all through the event of SNL right into a single night time. (It additionally invents a few issues fully.) Below is a listing of ten of the extra outlandish moments within the film, together with the true tales behind them, culled from a couple of of the non-fiction books about Saturday Night Live’s illustrious historical past.

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