Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray and other stars of the US comedy were regular visitors when Jason Reitman was young. Now he’s made Saturday Night about its first episode
Kim Matula, Emily Fairn, Gabriel LaBelle, Rachel Sennott and Matt Wood in Jason Reitman's film Saturday Night. Photograph: Hopper Stone/Sony Picturesof Robbie Williams, has led to much debate about pop culture that fails to cross the Atlantic. They don’t know Robbie. We couldn’t care less about Grand Funk Railroad or the Dave Matthews Band.
“With the birth of the show, young people organised their Saturday evenings around being at a television at 11.30pm. Not only just because they liked the show, but because they felt they saw themselves there.”Reitman, though born two years after that first broadcast, in October 1975, has a close personal connection with the project. As the son of, director of Ghostbusters and Kindergarten Cop, he grew up with Murray, Aykroyd and other SNL alumni knocking about the house.
“Until that point there had been a slow evolvement of vaudeville through radio and into television,” Reitman says. “The kind of variety shows you saw on TV were representative of that. It was an old-style sense of humour. Woodstock was when one generation claimed that music had changed. It was a close-run thing with SNL. As Reitman’s film tells it – in something like real time – Michaels was forced to improvise furiously on a show the network didn’t really want. We are told the executives had a repeat of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ready to run if the apparently chaotic production didn’t make it to air.
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