How the ‘SNL’ Movie Cast Compares With Real Life

October 11, 1975. A day that modified tv historical past ceaselessly.

That was the Saturday evening (dwell) when a brand new sketch present first debuted on NBC. Cobbled collectively by an inexperienced group of actors, producers, and writers, a lot of whom have been getting their first publicity on nationwide TV, the collection was not anticipated to be a serious success. ABC’s new present, titled Saturday Night time Stay, was thought of way more promising on the time, as a result of it starred in style broadcaster Howard Cosell.

The present was initially titled NBC’s Saturday Night time. However after Cosell’s Saturday Night time Stay was canceled, it adopted that identify as its personal — alongside the best way to changing into one of the in style and most influential tv comedies in historical past.

The fraught early days of SNL are actually the topic of Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night time, a historic dramedy concerning the very first airing of SNL on October 11, 1975. As a result of SNL continues to loom massive in popular culture — and since the present within the early days concerned such popular culture icons as John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, and Chevy Chase — there’s a whole lot of curiosity each concerning the film, and about who’s taking part in who in it. (And, nearly as importantly, how a lot they appear to be the individuals they’re taking part in.)

Beneath, you’ll discover 15 members of the Saturday Night time, and see how they stack up with their real-life counterparts. For my part, most of them look fairly nice. A pair … uh, much less nice.

Saturday Night time is scheduled to open in theaters on October 11 — the precise forty ninth anniversary of that very first SNL broadcast that the present is all about.

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