Everything You NEED to Know About SNL Season 5 (1979-80)

Everything You NEED To Know About Saturday Night Live
Season 5 (1979-1980)

Hosts Jon Schneider and James Stephens (Saturday Night Network) explore season-by-season the cast members, sketches, characters, and backstage stories that have made Saturday Night Live a television institution.

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Everything You Need to Know About Saturday Night Live:
Executive Producers: Jon Schneider & James Stephens
Producers: Matthew Ammon, Cameron Bristow, Ellis Mitchell
Announcer: Alex Quintero
Post Production: JPS Productions
“News Theme Logo” composed by Alexander Rufire; “Broadcast News Opener” by Motionsparrow are used under license from Envato Elements Pty Ltd.

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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
1:07 - Steve Martin / Blondie
1:51 - Eric Idle / Bob Dylan
2:19 - Bill Russell / Chicago
2:36 - Buck Henry / Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
2:46 - Bea Arthur / The Roches
2:55 - Howard Hesseman / Randy Newman
3:13 - Martin Sheen / David Bowie
3:27 - Ted Knight / Desmond Child & Rouge
4:26 - Teri Garr / The B-52's
5:18 - Chevy Chase / Marianne Faithful, Tom Scott
5:54 - Elliott Gould / Gary Numan
6:37 - Kirk Douglas / Sam & Dave
7:07 - Rodney Dangerfield / The J. Geils Band
7:14 - SNL 100th Episode / David Sanborn, James Taylor, Paul Simon
8:06 - Paula Prentiss, Richard Benjamin / The Grateful Dead
8:16 - Burt Reynolds / Anne Murray
8:45 - Strother Martin / The Specials
9:21 - Bob Newhart / Bruce Cockburn, The Amazing Rhythm Aces
10:52 - Steve Martin / Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, 3-D
11:24 - Buck Henry / Andrew Gold, Andrae Crouch, The Voices of Unity
13:07 - SNL Season 5 Summary

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[joelfrombethlehem]

We were extremely lucky to get tickets for the April 5th, 1980 episode broadcast. We had insider information that the Grateful Dead were the musical guests and Paula Prentiss was to be the hostess. Richard Benjamin was hired as co-host. At that time it was next to impossible to get tickets for the show, as it was the hottest thing on television and the audience balcony in studio 8H was small.

[drimblewedge]

How popular was SNL in 1979? In those days, we teenagers on a Saturday night would cruise the main street in the towns that we lived in and hang-out in store parking lots drinking beer and socializing. Then around 10:00, all of us would leave for home to watch SNL. It was the hottest show on TV because it was hilarious, and you never knew what was going to happen on the show. Then on Monday morning at school, we would all get together during lunch and discuss what had transpired on the show. SNL was simply brilliant because it was funny, it was our generation, and you never knew what insane incident was going to happen.

[TimEricddd]

This is a tremendous series. I'm hooked

[mikesternmike]

During Buck Henry's monologue for the final episode where he introduces a fake new cast for the following season is hilarious

[JJ-jtsm]

When Gary Numan performed on SNL, February 1980, Numan's performance included screen-overlaid subtitles, I guess owing to his strong accent. Was the first (and I think only) time SNL added subtitles for the musical guest. I recall Numan did 'Cars', and 'Praying to The Aliens', the latter song was subtitled.

[williamcabrol]

Wow, Buck Henry doin’ it ten times. I remember his skits being great and thanks to your videos I see more clearly how he was a real symbol of the show’s greatness.

[russelljdj]

It Don't get much better than this series!

[sirgilmour]

I truly love this yearly overview of each seasons! Keep up the good work!!!

[StromboliTastesGood]

I’m hooked. I wish these came out daily! I appreciate and understand the love and work put in to these videos and thank you for them. Can’t wait for the next one!

[teddyfurstman]

David Bowie is one of the best Musical Guests during this fifth season of SNL. I saw some of his performance at the David Bowie Is exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in 2018.

[MISHKINPUSH]

Looking forward to the next episode and a recap of the disastrous season 6. Thanks for all the time and effort you put into these.

[martycastillo]

Loving these season by season stories! Thank you.

[cozycribcafe]

Great job guys! It's great to revisit the golden years of SNL!

[brianrohan]

I’m surprised you didn’t mention the controversial “First He Cries” sketch on the Bea Arthur episode. I had read that that sketch got the highest number of outraged phone calls to the network, later surpassed by Sinead O’Connor ripping up a picture of the Pope.

[ryan_hald]

I’m so into this YT. I watched the latest video and thought it was great. That ‘86 season seems underrated.

[mrsmacca]

You guys are going to get rich and famous!!!! Keep up the excellent work!!!❤👏👏👏👏🌞💕💗🌺🥰😎

[ecoallies]

I'm loving this series. Good stuff in here.

[chowpuppy]

12:00 The "Lord and Lady Douchebag" was and still remains one of the funniest bits in SNL history. More than four decades after it originally aired, I still laugh out loud while watching it.

[christopherwebb]

My favorite season of SNL was the 90/91 season - only because it was the first season where I was old enough to stay up to watch it. It turned out to be kind of a weird transition season, with some holdovers from the 80s mixed with some new cast members that would later be part of the Farley/Spade/Sandler era.

[jeffwontshutup]

Pretty funny that Kirk Douglas and Bill Murray are in that shrinking sketch in retrospect since Douglas' son Michael would be in three Ant-Man movies for Marvel, with Murray appearing as one of the antagonists of the third one. (I'm sure everyone already knows the other one, about Garrett and Ant-Man).