Saturday Night Live Season 1 Episode 11 Synopsis

Live from New York, It's... Chevy Chase!



Sketches include "Bomb Squad," "The Lifer Follies," "Don Pardo's Holiday In An Elevator," "Middle American Van Lines," "Table Talk," "The Paramount Novelty Store" (film), "British Sonny & Cher," "No Bees In This Show" (Muppets), "Backstage Banter," "No Commercial Products," "Is The Patient Dead?," and "Interviewing a Shepherd."



Neil Sedaka sang "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do," and "Lonely Night."

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 1 Episode 11 of Saturday Night Live resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

Saturday Night Live Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - George Carlin/Janis Ian & Billy Preston
• s01e02 - Paul Simon/Art Garfunkel, Randy Newman, Phoebe Snow
• s01e03 - Rob Reiner/"Joe Cocker"
• s01e04 - Candice Bergen/Esther Phillips
• s01e05 - Robert Klein/ABBA, Loudon Wainwright III
• s01e06 - Lily Tomlin/Howard Shore and His All Nurse Band
• s01e07 - Richard Pryor/Gil-Scott Heron
• s01e08 - Candice Bergen/The Stylistics, Martha Reeves
• s01e09 - Elliott Gould/Anne Murray
• s01e10 - Buck Henry/Bill Withers, Toni Basil
• s01e11 - Peter Cook, Dudley Moore/Neil Sedaka
• s01e12 - Dick Cavett/Jimmy Cliff
• s01e13 - Peter Boyle/Al Jarreau, The Shapiro Sisters
• s01e14 - Desi Arnaz/Desi Arnaz, Jr.
• s01e15 - Jill Clayburgh/Leon Redbone, The Singing Idlers
• s01e16 - Anthony Perkins/Betty Carter
• s01e17 - Ron Nessen/Toni Basil, Patti Smith
• s01e18 - Raquel Welch/Phoebe Snow, John Sebastian
• s01e19 - Madeline Kahn/Carly Simon
• s01e20 - Dyan Cannon/Leon and Mary Russell
• s01e21 - Buck Henry/Gordon Lightfoot
• s01e22 - Elliott Gould/Leon Redbone, Harlan Collins & Joyce Everson
• s01e23 - Louise Lasser/Preservation Hall Jazz Band
• s01e24 - Kris Kristofferson/Rita Coolidge

Saturday Night Live Show Summary

Since 1975, SNL has launched the careers of many of the brightest comedy performers of a generation and as "The New York Times" noted on the occasion of the show's Emmy winning 25th Anniversary special in 1999. In defiance of both time and show business convention, "SNL" is still the most pervasive influence on the art of comedy in contemporary culture". At the close of the century, "Saturday Night Live" placed seventh on Entertainment Weekly's list of the Top 100 Entertainers of the past fifty years.

Saturday Night Live is broadcast live from NBC's famed Studio 8H in New York City's Rockefeller Center. The program is a production of Broadway Video in association with SNL Studios. Lorne Michaels is the executive producer.