#OTD 1979. #SNL S4 finale.
This was the last #SNL sketch to feature original Not Ready for Prime Time Players Dan Aykroyd & John Belushi as cast members.
The final installment of "The Olympia Cafe."
#SNLvintage#SaturdayNightLive
Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.
They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.
France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend
46 years ago: The original era of #SNL came to a close & they delivered one of the greatest sketches of the first 5 years.
Last episode for remaining OG cast & Lorne Michaels would leave the show for the next five seasons.
"Goodnight, and goodbye."
#OTD#SNLvintage
New video shows a message in chalk outside of Stephen Colbert's final show as CBS washes it away:
"Thank you Stephen, and fuck you CBS and Donald Trump."
An unexpected encounter—but it happened.
In 1990, some of the biggest stars of film and music came together to perform "What a Wonderful World" at a charity event called "Mothers & Others for a Livable Planet," held at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles.
On stage were none other than Bette Midler, Cher, Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Olivia Newton-John, and Lily Tomlin—each with a remarkable career in film, music, and comedy, all sharing a common purpose: raising environmental awareness.🫶💫🌟
37 years ago we lost the great Gilda Radner.
On that day, Steve Martin was hosting the #SNL S14 finale. In his monologue, he & the show pay tribute to Gilda's passing with one of her classic sketches.
G.E. Smith (her 1st husband) leads the band out to commercial.
RIP Gilda.
SNL’s “Olympia Restaurant” sketches — inspired by Olympia Lunch and the Billy Goat — weren’t punchline-based comedy. They were brilliantly drawn, slice-of-life mini-movies capturing the unique rhythms and chaos of a Greek family diner in Chicago.