I was 7 years old when the first season of SNL aired, and every week I desperately wanted to stay up to see the Muppets. My parents said "Sure, you're welcome to try." And of course I almost always failed, falling asleep on the couch either before airtime or during the course of the show. Even when I was able to stay awake, it was a challenge to pay attention.
Some of you may also note that the Muppets I was wanting to see so badly were not of the Sesame Street variety, and that the humor was not aimed at my demographic. That did not matter. Of course I usually did not get the humor of the SNL Muppets, but man did I enjoy the sheer creativity of the Muppet designs. That's really all I wanted to see.
I also remember my older sister explaining to me the difference between "Saturday Night" and Howard Cosell's "Saturday Night Live", which we had also watched at least a couple of times, and which was heavily promoted. (Whereas NBC Saturday Night seemed to come out of nowhere.)
Anyway, I don't often get a chance (or a reason) to reminisce about S1 of SNL, but the truth is that it played a part in my formative years when it came to media consumption. It was emphatically not aimed at kids, but its fun and freewheeling style had definite appeal to someone who, even at age 7, was already over the stodgy, cheesy style of variety shows, that was so prominent at that time.
I was 7 years old when the first season of SNL aired, and every week I desperately wanted to stay up to see the Muppets. My parents said "Sure, you're welcome to try." And of course I almost always failed, falling asleep on the couch either before airtime or during the course of the show. Even when I was able to stay awake, it was a challenge to pay attention.
Some of you may also note that the Muppets I was wanting to see so badly were not of the Sesame Street variety, and that the humor was not aimed at my demographic. That did not matter. Of course I usually did not get the humor of the SNL Muppets, but man did I enjoy the sheer creativity of the Muppet designs. That's really all I wanted to see.
I also remember my older sister explaining to me the difference between "Saturday Night" and Howard Cosell's "Saturday Night Live", which we had also watched at least a couple of times, and which was heavily promoted. (Whereas NBC Saturday Night seemed to come out of nowhere.)
Anyway, I don't often get a chance (or a reason) to reminisce about S1 of SNL, but the truth is that it played a part in my formative years when it came to media consumption. It was emphatically not aimed at kids, but its fun and freewheeling style had definite appeal to someone who, even at age 7, was already over the stodgy, cheesy style of variety shows, that was so prominent at that time.