Everything You NEED to Know About SNL Season 4 (1978-79)

Everything You NEED To Know About Saturday Night Live
Season 4 (1978-1979)

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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The Saturday Night Network (SNN) is a podcast network that releases to thousands of SNL fans each week featuring biweekly coverage of Saturday Night Live from a team of over 25 diverse podcasters, journalists and superfans. The SNN’s rotating panels includes commentary from writers at Entertainment Weekly, Vulture, The A/V Club, and New York Magazine, in addition to industry experts who have worked with comedy troupes such The Second City, SNL archivists & record-keepers, and professional hosts.

Programming on the Saturday Night Network includes analysis of modern-day episodes, interviews with SNL cast, crew, and alumni, and promotion and red-carpet interviews for festivals like Just for Laughs & Blues Brothers Con.

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The purpose of this video is to offer analysis, commentary, and critique, with the commentators offering a unique and educated perspective as established historians and experts in the area of sketch comedy, music, and popular culture. The video is presented under fair use (in the United States under Section 107 of the Copyright Act in 1976, providing allowance for purposes such as commentary, criticism, research, education, and news reporting) provisions of copyright law.

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:46 - The Rolling Stones
1:27 - Fred Willard / Devo
1:37 - Frank Zappa
2:24 - Steve Martin / Van Morrison
2:35 - Buck Henry / The Grateful Dead
3:14 - Carrie Fisher / The Blues Brothers
3:29 - Walter Matthau
4:14 - Eric Idle / Kate Bush
5:00 - Elliott Gould / Peter Tosh
5:19 - Michael Palin / The Doobie Brothers
5:24 - Cicely Tyson / Talking Heads
5:51 - Rick Nelson / Judy Collins
6:00 - Kate Jackson / Delbert McClinton
6:43 - Gary Busey / Eubie Blake, Gregory Hines
7:11 - Margot Kidder / The Chieftans
7:22 - Richard Benjamin / Rickie Lee Jones
8:34 - Milton Berle / Prime Time, Ornette Coleman
9:10 - Michael Palin / James Taylor
9:14 - Maureen Stapleton / Linda Rondstadt, Phoebe Snow
9:22 - Buck Henry / Bette Midler
10:06 - SNL Season 4 Summary

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[wanderingseth]

I really like that you keep these videos punchy. I can't watch those two hour deep dives. Your videos are just right for this medium.

[dougmorris]

I started my senior year of high school with this season, and thanks to Steve Martin every person who signed my yearbook wrote "To Doug, a wild and crazy guy!"

[presto]

06:25 "in which he was _regulated_ to one role" [should be _relegated_ to one role]

[HDWTaipei]

In the finale, one of Bette Midler's backup singers is Katey Sagal.

[Timm]

BTW, This is a very much needed and desired topic on You Tube. You have 50 years to do. This is amazing info we all love. Thank you kindly for this series!

[mananimal]

My favorite season. I was in fourth grade and was allowed to stay up and watch it. It was the end of a Saturday night lineup with LoveBoat and FantasyIsland. Great memories .

[markjamesmeli]

OMG - so many wonderful memories...of my family, who have since moved on.

[docscreations]

Can’t wait for Season 5.
This series is my new favorite and I look forward to new episodes.
I used to be a big fan of SNL & these shows remind me of why I loved SNL.

[maxpatrickhaynes]

You guys have done a really good job with these videos. I just watched the S1-S3 breakdowns. Now on to 4! I started watching the show at 10 yrs old, in the second season, 1976

[JoeSiegler]

Hope the one for Season 6 is like twice as long - so much to talk about. :)

[henrykujawa]

I remember so many of these moments, including Cicily Tyson being interviewed by Garrett Morris ("Say WHAAAAT???"), and Rick Nelson's episode may be my ALL-TIME favorite. (Shocking that when it was first-run, I walked in halfway thru, having just gotten home from a live pro wrestling show in Philly.)

[patrickbeck]

I remember the Rick Nelson episode. He walks into every 1950s sitcom kitchen in the Twilight Zone. Funny stuff.

[gottadomor]

I don't think anyone younger than than 30-35 can appreciate how big a star Belushi was back then.
Also, t/y the Todd & Lisa clip, i had forgotten how funny that gag was Murray w/ his pants WAY too high & Radner's rebuffing his advances w/ that nasally voice. Truly wonderful comedy by two all-time great comedians. Bravo.

[rigeur]

Rick Nelson singing in his monologue segment made for great TV.
And usually when I think of my absolute favorite sketch ever, it’s “Fred Garvin: Male Prostitute.”

[MCO]

Eric Idle walking into the writer’s room and finding himself in an opium den is just brilliantly funny 😂

[cygnals]

There are some parts of pop culture you have to live through to truly understand.
I remember these early years of SNL as I was in Jr. High and High School during that run and it was all everyone talked about back then. When SNL came on back then everything seemed to stop and no matter where you were it was always the only thing on with everyone giving 100% of their attention to it.
This was before MTV, VHS Tapes, etc... So if you missed it you had to hope they repeated it over the summer.

[jasonwiggins]

I ❤ this channel cant wait until next week for season 10 it was amazing!! Crazy set design

[timburr]

The horse wearing a black mourning veil😂

[jnadle]

That season, the show's house band had been utilized quite a bit, for Phoebe Snow and Linda Ronstadt, Bette Midler and the Blues Brothers.

[timburr]

Maureen Stapleton

"For an elderly person like me..."

She was 54