Saturday Night Live: Episode 19 [excerpts]

Saturday Night Live: Episode 19 [excerpts]
NBC
May 8, 1976
Variety
VHS
B

SNL was originally one of those shows that the high school and college students watched when I was a little kid, and it wasn't till 1980 (at age 12) that I started to catch up with it, watching the mostly rotten first post-Lorne-Michaels season as it aired, as well as the earlier episodes in edited down form.  When I revisited it as an adult, including the original "classic" years, I felt like it was over-rated, but still with good moments.  This episode has not only the "slumber party" sketch written by Marilyn Suzanne Miller (who voices the offscreen Mother), with guest host Madeline Kahn and the female regulars doing a nice job of playing preteens trying to figure out sex (Gilda is not surprisingly the most believable as a little girl), but also Chevy playing the "you" of "You're So Vain," in apricot scarf and accompanying Carly Simon on the cowbell.  There was originally a lot of other stuff of course (it was an hour and a half after all), but this is what I recorded off Nickelodeon in the late '80s.