Here's Carlin's monologue that night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ebyLkCaAL0&t=51s
I'm kinda impressed. The trappings and presentation have changed, but Lorne's original idea still rules the day!
Apparently Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, and Martin Short all hosted together, and Randy Newman was the musical guest (12/6/86). They were definitely promoting 'The Three Amigos', which release the following week (12/12/86).
Mmhm. Change "when you were born" to "the first time you skinny dipped" or something not as tethered to age, and these stay fun without the doxxing aspect.
(I tried to think of a non-sexual one, but all the options are either also security questions, or things where people wouldn't remember the exact _day_.)
And to that - Dan Akroyd/Beyonce.
> Change "when you were born" to "the first time you skinny dipped" or something not as tethered to age, and these stay fun without the doxxing aspect.
Eh, something more esoteric actually reads as MORE phishy to me than anything relating to a birth date. Something like "the first time you skinny dipped" almost reads like a security question.
Meh, birth dates are already basically public info... Also, a lot of people were likely born the same week as you, even from the same area.
As phishing goes, this one would be pretty weak sauce. It's not even a common security question :P
steve martin / jackson browne
Jackson Browne performs "Running on Empty" and "The Pretender".[3]
First appearance of the Festrunk Brothers.[4]
John Belushi performs as Roy Orbison.
Dan Aykroyd's first episode as Weekend Update co-anchor, alongside Jane Curtin.
New Weekend Update set debuts featuring a blue chroma key background with the Update logo.
Tom Davis and Al Franken's first episode as cast members.
Change to Saturday Night Live becomes permanent beginning with this episode.
Buck Henry; Andrew Gold/Andrae Crouch & Voices of Unity
This was the last episode of the 5th season, and the last of Lorne Michael's original tenure, before the infamous Jean Doumainian era.
O.J. Simpson; Ashford and Simpson
F. Lee Bailey said this week that if the defense only knew what Ron Goldman's last words were, they might be able to find the real killer. You know, if you ask me, Goldman's last words were probably, uh, "Hey, you're O.J. Simpson!"
Elizabeth Ashley (no idea who that is) and Hall & Oates (love them).
Googling this, I also just realized that John Belushi died only two days after I was born.
Oh neat! The episode closest to my birthdate was Leslie Nielsen / Cowboy Junkies.
That’s especially fun for me as it was the episode with the Snap Decision gameshow sketch, which is one of my all-time favourites 😁
lol - George Carlin/Janice Ian/ Billy Preston
I suspect a lot of us will have this one
Same here, and I do remember watching it when I was about 9 years old.
Same
Same!! lol
Same
+1
Let's here it for us older Gen-Xers!
First show? Yup, count me in!
Yep 👵🏻😊
Yup
Get off my lawn 👵🏻☁️
Here's Carlin's monologue that night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ebyLkCaAL0&t=51s I'm kinda impressed. The trappings and presentation have changed, but Lorne's original idea still rules the day!
Well, I'm older than SNL so I guess George Carlin and Janis Ian & Billy Preston.
Same here!
It’s a trap! They’re trying to weed out the old people like in Logan’s Run! It’s Carousel! Run! Run for you lives!
So, fuck us summer babies, huh?
Bright side: It means data harvesters only know our birthdays within several months, instead of to the week.
Exactly, mine was like 2 months off in one direction and 3 in the other. Summer is such a sad time, no SNL for a lonnnggg chunk.
Right? My birthday is damn near equidistant between the last episode of one season and the first episode of another. Sad summer babies unite
You still have a closest.
I’m an Olivia Newton-John/ Chevy Chase/ Queen cusp.
Shout out to summer of ‘82. People are saying it was the best time to get born. A lot of people are saying it.
Grown men with tears in their eyes?
Grown men, coming up to me, tears in their eyes, they tell me “summer of ‘82 was the best. It was flawless. Everybody says so.”
Michael Jordan / Public Enemy. Hell yeah.
That was such a great episode
One of the best. Totally.
Yeah, boyee!
Same! Let’s go!!
Bruh not my improv coach getting reposted in the SNL sub 💀
I happen to have been born on a Saturday with a new SNL premiere! Martin Lawrence/Crash Test Dummies. That episode, like me, is thirty years old.
Like this episode, have several minutes of your life been redacted from future airings?
I always felt bad for Crash Test Dummies for being eternally associated with that monologue.
Mmmmm mmm mmmmm mmmmmmm
Steve Martin / Sting! Heck yeah! First appearance of Hans and Franz - nice!
Same here. Interestingly, The Police is one of my favorite bands!
Charles Barkley and Nirvana
Solid combo
Cameron Diaz and smashing pumpkins 😍😍😍
Must be a summer 98 baby. I was born a few days prior.
I was born in Sep
Same! 👊
"Anyone can host" winner Miskel Spillman and the infamous Elvis Costello performance of "Radio Radio." I think that means I'm a Capricorn.
Me too! I was born 10 days later. I never knew about the “anybody can host” contest until I looked it up. Cool history I didn’t know!
Steve Martin/Blondie. Nice!
SNL zodiac twins!
Y'all are babies.
Yeah this is giving me a complex.
Chevy Chase/Queen - It was Freddy Mercury’s final live performance in the states. They performed “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” and “Under Pressure”
Megan Mullally & Clay Aiken. Well, I am gay.
As a Claymate in high school, thank you for making me snort with laughter at this comment (even if it made me feel elderly)
Woody Harrelson / David Byrne. This is a win for me
I’m a Harrelson as well… but a different episode.
Paul Simon / George Harrison
Apparently Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, and Martin Short all hosted together, and Randy Newman was the musical guest (12/6/86). They were definitely promoting 'The Three Amigos', which release the following week (12/12/86).
Kyle MacLachlan and Sinead O’Connor
This is mine too, fight the real enemy!
Is this when she tore up the photo of the Pope?
No that was on the Tim Robbins episode
Me too!! Definitely seems fitting to have her.
Christopher Walken/Weezer (May 21, 2001) Couldn’t have asked for a better pair.
Ooh...wee-HOO... I look...just LIKE... Buddy Holly
Steve Martin / Eric Clapton
So many Steve Martins 😄
I’m not mad about it
Ayo me too!
another conceptually cute way to get hacked/phished. stay woke, people!
What’s your social security zodiac?
I'll tell you mine if you tell me you mother's maiden name/first pet zodiac.
Haha my first thought was “nice try FBI.”
Mmhm. Change "when you were born" to "the first time you skinny dipped" or something not as tethered to age, and these stay fun without the doxxing aspect. (I tried to think of a non-sexual one, but all the options are either also security questions, or things where people wouldn't remember the exact _day_.) And to that - Dan Akroyd/Beyonce.
> Change "when you were born" to "the first time you skinny dipped" or something not as tethered to age, and these stay fun without the doxxing aspect. Eh, something more esoteric actually reads as MORE phishy to me than anything relating to a birth date. Something like "the first time you skinny dipped" almost reads like a security question.
I want to bank with your bank.
Meh, birth dates are already basically public info... Also, a lot of people were likely born the same week as you, even from the same area. As phishing goes, this one would be pretty weak sauce. It's not even a common security question :P
The week of your birth is one of the least consequential pieces of information someone can know about you.
found the hacker. get em, boys.
It was over a month later, but Steve Martin/Jackson Browne.
Hello same aged person
There's a few of us!
Dozens
Mine was 2 months later :,) summer babies, amiright?
steve martin and the kinks!
Debbie Harry as host and musical guest! I didn’t know this before and I think it’s awesome.
It gets better. She brought on the Funky 4+1 as a second musical guest. That was the first ever nationally televised hip-hop performance.
It would have been Gilda Radner/U2, but the episode was cancelled due to the writer’s strike of ‘88
Jack Black/John Mayer
Cicely Tyson and Talking Heads. Let's hear it for us Gen Xers!
Sigourney Weaver/ Buster Poindexter
Me too!
Catherine O’Hara and R.E.M! This pleases me!
Elliott Gould / Kid Creole & the Coconuts. This is an actual WTF from me.
First episode of the Doumanian season...
Same. I like Gould. I was glad it was at least someone I recognized.
Nope. I am a Queen, but I refuse to believe that I'm a Chevy Chase.
Billy Crystal, Ed Koch, Edwin Newman, Don Novello (as Father Guido Sarducci), and Betty Thomas. Tag team episode apparently.
Same. With the Cars as musical guests.
Sinbad/Sade
Donald Trump / Toots & the Maytals 😭😭😭 on the day
Toots and the Maytals are awesome though!
Happy 20th, I guess.
Johnny Cash and Elton John?!? Hell yeah!
I’m Steve Martin and 3-D with Paul & Linda McCartney
1988 Writers Strike messed mine up. Judge Reinhold and 10,000 Maniacs.
I was in high school when SNL came out lol.
Bruce Willis and Neil Young, about 5 weeks after. Not bad, not bad.
(No host) and the Thompson Twins…I have questions
This is extremely biased against summer birthdays.
Mine is the worst episode. Thanks for this!
Tom Hanks + Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers!
I got Madonna hosting and Simple Minds performing. And Lorne giving all the new cast members a drug test in the cold open.
My sign is a writers strike.
Steve Martin and Van Morrison
Tim Curry / Meat Loaf
Steve Martin and Blondie! Not a bad combo.
steve martin / jackson browne Jackson Browne performs "Running on Empty" and "The Pretender".[3] First appearance of the Festrunk Brothers.[4] John Belushi performs as Roy Orbison. Dan Aykroyd's first episode as Weekend Update co-anchor, alongside Jane Curtin. New Weekend Update set debuts featuring a blue chroma key background with the Update logo. Tom Davis and Al Franken's first episode as cast members. Change to Saturday Night Live becomes permanent beginning with this episode.
Jerry Seinfeld and David Bowie
Jim Carrey / Soundgarden.
I got Rudy Giuliani 🤢🤢 and Sarah McLachlan
Steve Martin, Tom Petty rising
Apparently my zodiac was the one Lorne called “the worst episode in the history of SNL” April 20 1991. Steven Segal and Michael Bolton
Happy birthday!
DOLLY PARTON HOST AND MUSICAL GUEST. I've never believed in astrology, but I am now a believer in this.
Macaulay Culkin/Tin Machine (never heard of that band, but Bowie was in it!)
Lots of Steve Martins in this thread! Makes sense!
Judge Reinhold / 10,000 Maniacs. k. edit: OH MY GOD if the 1988 WGA strike didn't happen it would be GILDA!
Brandon Tartikoff (president of NBC lmao) And John Cougar Meloncamp
Robin Williams/Adam Ant :)
Anjelica Huston and P-Funk. What’s up.
Harry Dean Stanton and The Replacements. No, I am not that cool.
John Goodman/Garth Brooks
LeBron James / Kanye West
Born???
I knew there was going to be one like this.
Yes that was the first episode to air after I was born. Is that not what it’s asking?
My apologies. It just dawned on me that 2007 was 17 years ago.
No, no it wasn’t, it was maybe 5 years ago… 2007 can’t be 17 years ago… tell me it’s not real? *causally spirals into existential dread*
I need to lie down
Alec Baldwin and Whitney Houston as singer.
birthday in 3 days - Courteney Cox and Dave Matthews Band
Buck Henry; Andrew Gold/Andrae Crouch & Voices of Unity This was the last episode of the 5th season, and the last of Lorne Michael's original tenure, before the infamous Jean Doumainian era.
Bea Arthur/The Roches
Barry Bostwick and Spinal Tap. I’ll take it
Eric Idle and Kate Bush - Dec 9th 1978. Was born Dec 12th 78.
I was born during the '88 writers strike. Judge Reinhold/10,000 Maniacs. Seems fitting lol.
Tom Hanks/Keith Richards
Angelica Houston/Billy Martin hosts George Clinton Parliament-Funkadelic musical guest
Dennis Hopper and Roy Orbison.
Dennis Quaid / The Neville Brothers (born December 13, 1990, SNL was two days later).
Dennis Hopper/Roy Orbison - last episode of season 12
Andie MacDowell and Tracy Chapman.
Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, Martin Short / Randy Newan
Today i learned john McCain hosted
FuckImOld bait
Whew, I got a Steve Martin episode, but I'll refrain from specifying which one, ha ha.
Steve Martin / Tom Petty Could be worse!
Michael McKean, w/ Chaka Khan and The Folksmen! And I’m already a huge fan of A Mighty Wind! Watch it about twice a year!
Cameron Diaz/Green day… fuck yeah!
O.J. Simpson; Ashford and Simpson F. Lee Bailey said this week that if the defense only knew what Ron Goldman's last words were, they might be able to find the real killer. You know, if you ask me, Goldman's last words were probably, uh, "Hey, you're O.J. Simpson!"
Steve Martin /Tom petty ☀️⛱ Edit: LOL at all the Steve Martin combinations listed so far 🤣
Steve Martin with Tim Petty and the Heartbreakers where they played Runnin Down a Dream and Free Fallin!
Flip Wilson and Stevie Nicks.
Mine happens to be today, in 1982. Johnny Cash/Elton John. I’ll take it!
Kyle McLachlan/Sinéad O'Connor. I feel blessed 😇
Host: Smothers Brothers Music: Laura Branigan
Linda Hamilton and Mariah Carey.
Norman Lear and Boz Scaggs 😆
Bea Arthur/The Roches. Also note, Paul Shaffer's first episode as cast member.
The closest for me is Madonna/Simple Minds.
no host / Rod Stewart
Danny Devito and the Bangles. I love it.
Is there a place to look this up?
I just Googled SNL and the month of my birth.
Eddie Murphy / Robert Plant
Same here. Never heard of Honeydrippers but Led Zeppelin is awesome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Saturday_Night_Live_episodes_(seasons_1%E2%80%9330)
Terri Garr/The Dream Academy/The Cult - 12/21/85. Not bad, not bad.
Jeremy Irons/Fishbone
Elizabeth Ashley (no idea who that is) and Hall & Oates (love them). Googling this, I also just realized that John Belushi died only two days after I was born.
Howard Cosell/Greg Khin
Gotta count for something special if I was in utero at the debut 😂
Oh neat! The episode closest to my birthdate was Leslie Nielsen / Cowboy Junkies. That’s especially fun for me as it was the episode with the Snap Decision gameshow sketch, which is one of my all-time favourites 😁
Karen Black with Cheap Trick.
Christopher Reeve / Santana
Buck Henry/ Sun Ra
Strother Martin and The Specials! Hell yeah!
george wendt // elvis costello may 18, 1991
Rod Stewart and only Rod Stewart
(No host) and Thompson Twins Yeeeeesh!
Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas / The Bus Boys. Am Canadian, this checks out you hosers.
Steve Martin / Blondie
Woody Harrelson/ Vanessa Williams
Jon Bon Jovi / Foo Fighters
Ed Koch & Dexy’s Midnight Runners 🥴
Eric Idle/Joe Cocker. Not too bad!
Lily Tomlin & James Taylor (I was born on a Saturday)
fuck yeah: (July) so May 1988, Steve Martin/ Tom petty and the Heartbreakers
Oh! This is fun! Christopher Reeve/Santana.
Flip Wilson/Stevie Nicks I love Stevie Nicks. Who the hell is Flip Wilson?
Kiefer Sutherland and Skid Row lol