On April 14, 1979, Milton Berle guest-hosted the program. Berle’s long reputation for taking control of an entire television production—whether invited to do so or not—was a cause of major on-set stress.[50]One of the show’s writers, Rosie Shuster, described the rehearsals for the Berle SNL show, and the telecast, as “watching a comedy train accident in slow motion on a loop.” Upstaging, camera mugging, doing spit-takes, inserting old comedy bits, and climaxing the show with a maudlin performance of “September Song” complete with a pre-arranged standing ovation (something producer Lorne Michaels had never sanctioned) resulted in Berle being banned from hosting the show again. The episode was also barred from being rerun until surfacing in 2003, because Michaels thought it brought down the show’s reputation.[51][52]
TIL that Milton Berle was banned from SNL because he demanded total control over the episode he hosted and apparently turned an episode of 1970s SNL into like some kinda 1940s variety show
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My boomer of a gen xer-ass cousin needed me to figure out why the tv wasn’t turned on
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the best boy <3
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Juuling Gen Z-ers never got to experience the time before image macros when all memes were just racist DBZ fanart
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Outtake from photo sessions for Steely Dan’s Aja.
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