Live From New York, It's... Dan Aykroyd!



Sketches include "State of the Union '78," "Swill," "Searching For Bigfoot," "Wild & Crazy Guys," "Body Floss," "The Coneheads On 'Family Feud'," "Steve's Personal Friends" (film), and "What If?"



The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band performed "On the Loose With the Blues" and "White Russia" with Steve Martin; Randy Newman performed "Short People" and "Rider In The Rain."

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 3 Episode 9 of Saturday Night Live resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

Saturday Night Live Season 3 Episodes...

• s03e01 - Steve Martin/Jackson Browne
• s03e02 - Madeline Kahn/Taj Mahal
• s03e03 - Hugh Hefner/Libby Titus
• s03e04 - Charles Grodin/Paul Simon and The Persuasions
• s03e05 - Ray Charles and the Raylettes
• s03e06 - Buck Henry/Leon Redbone
• s03e07 - Mary Kay Place/Willie Nelson
• s03e08 - Mrs. Miskel Spillman/Elvis Costello & the Attractions
• s03e09 - Steve Martin/The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Randy Newman
• s03e10 - Robert Klein/Bonnie Raitt
• s03e11 - Chevy Chase/Billy Joel
• s03e12 - O.J. Simpson/Ashford and Simpson
• s03e13 - Art Garfunkel/Stephen Bishop
• s03e14 - Jill Clayburgh/Eddie Money
• s03e15 - Christopher Lee/Meat Loaf
• s03e16 - Michael Palin/Eugene Record
• s03e17 - Michael Sarrazin/Keith Jarrett
• s03e18 - Steve Martin/The Blues Brothers
• s03e19 - Richard Dreyfuss/Jimmy Buffett, Gary Tigerman
• s03e20 - Buck Henry/Sun Ra

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.