Saturday Night Dive: An SNL Podcast

Live from a mid-air collision - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs rewatch and break down Saturday Night Live season 3, episode 2, which originally aired in October of 1977 and was hosted by actress Madeline Kahn with a musical performance by Taj Mahal.

This episode has it all: cream pies, thick American mineral water, catatonic opera singers, three or four of your close personal friends, Captain Acid, John Denver's spider-baby, golden boys, brunch and free vodka and Tab's for the ladies. Take the dive!

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Live from the back seat of a Royal Deluxe II - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs rewatch and cover Saturday Night Live's season 3 premiere, which originally aired on September 24, 1977 and was hosted by comedian and third-timer Steve Martin with musical performances from Jackson Browne.

This episode has it all: disgraced cabinet members, chapstick cocaine, three handed watches, unexplained Evel Kinevel appearances, virtual hail marys, multi-layer sunglasses and back-seat circumcisions. Take the dive!

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Live from the Circle2 Lounge at Disc Golf Mart Indianapolis - it's Saturday Night Dive! The Zachs are taking one last deep dive into season 2 of Saturday Night Live before kicking off the next one. This episode has it all. Take the dive!

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Live from the inky deep of the icy Atlantic - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs rewatch and cover Saturday Night Live's season 2 finale, which originally aired in May 1977 and was hosted by actor and four-timer Buck Henry with musical performances from Grammy-winner Jennifer Warnes, Kenny Vance and Howard Shore & The SNL Band.

This episode has it all: bicycle-powered electricity, live sex acts, showers with your wife's lover, flying Chrysler buildings, congresswoman Bella Abzug, egg tweezers, semicolons, hand stewardesses and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Take the dive!

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Live from the steak dinner line - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs rewatch and break down Saturday Night Live season 2, episode 20, which originally aired in May 1977 and was hosted by actress Shelley Duvall with musical guest Joan Armatrading.

This episode has it all: the infamous Bobick/Norton fight, Video Vixens, panty hose insects, multiple confused Ricardo Montalbans, Shakespearean Elvis, Richard Burton's real midwest accent, the other swan related ballet, zombified Moonies and a good cry in the K-Mart. Take the dive!

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Live from Tampon, Florida - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs rewatch and break down Saturday Night Live season 2, episode 20, which originally aired in April 1977 and was hosted by  Monty Python's Eric Idle, returning for the second time, with musical guests Alan Price, Neil Innes and Ron Nasty of The Rutles.

This episode has it all: potato torture, cereal discussions, poorly read body language, meat, cheese and onions, war flashbacks, gun-friendly airlines, and twenty dollars from Clive Davis. Take the dive!

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Live from the Protoid Bowl - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs rewatch and break down Saturday Night Live season 2, episode 19, which originally aired in April 1977 and was hosted by Elliott Gould, returning for the third time, with musical guests Kate and Anna McGarrigle and Roslyn Kind.

This episode has it all: castration, senso-rings, art by men, Howdy Doody's widow, faces in jars, ethically sourced meats, and puppet affairs. Take the dive!

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Live from this little peanut shell lean-to - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs rewatch and break down Saturday Night Live season 2, episode 18, which originally aired in April 1977 and was hosted by Georgia state senator Julian Bond with musical guests Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Tom Waits and Atlanta's own Brick.

This episode has it all: national women, chocolate Easter bunnies, tax fraud, burgers and fries, liquid protein, Right On afro luster, the Soup Man, and dazz. Take the dive!

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Live from Squatters Heights, Kansas - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs rewatch and break down Saturday Night Live season 2, episode 17, which originally aired in March 1977 and was hosted by comedian and actor Jack Burns with musical guest Santana.

This episode has it all: network hostage situations, French Scrabble, shouting marines, cardboard Harry Reasoner, leeches for health, botched staged suicides, Jack Burns is Rocky, Big Daddy Idi VD Amin, and of course, Pantygrams. Take the dive!

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Live from Wilmette, Illinois - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs rewatch and break down Saturday Night Live season 2, episode 16, which originally aired in March 1977 and was hosted by Academy Award winner Broderick Crawford with musical guests Levon Helm & the RCO All-Stars (featuring Dr. John and Paul Butterfield) and The Meters.

This episode has it all: an old man seated all night, Benihana comedy, sleeping overnight in Central Park, a new Mrs. Mel, desperate pleas from failing actors, whipped cream topped atomic warheads, Irish racism, touchy Godzilla, and non-former president J. Edgar Hoover. Take the dive!<...

Live from the first White House sleepover - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs rewatch and break down Saturday Night Live season 2, episode 15, which originally aired in March 1977 and was hosted by Academy Award nominee Sissy Spacek with musical guest film composer Richard Baskin.\

This episode has it all: dead directors, amateur baton twirling, burger stomping, acid trip shaman Jimmy Carter, Jim Crow rice, adult babies, fruit slaw and Death. Take the dive!

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Live from inside the electronic core of the Defense Department's executive command flying post - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs rewatch and break down Saturday Night Live season 2, episode 14, which originally aired in February 1977 and was hosted by comedian Steve Martin with musical guest rock icons The Kinks, alongside a special appearance from Lily Tomlin.

This episode has it all: getting small, fried chicken embryos, Harry Belafonte, Jackie Onassis Kennedy weightlifting, edible diet books, pulling your son's plug the day before his birthday, a full bingo card of stars, hunky former senator Al Franken, and...

Live from the Pink Lady - it's Saturday Night Dive! In this episode of Saturday Night Dive: An SNL Podcast, the Zachs review and break down one of the strangers chapters in Saturday Night Live history - the infamous 1977 "Live from Mardi Gras" special. Originally airing in February 1977, the special features appearances from Randy Newman, Buck Henry, Eric Idle, Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Henry Winkler and more. They explore the chaotic live broadcast from Mardi Gras in New Orleans, the sketches and segments that made the special so controversial and why the unusual experiment remains one of the most talked a...

Live from Belgium, Belgium, Kansas City - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs rewatch and break down Saturday Night Live season 2, episode 13, which originally aired in February 1977 and was hosted by pro quarterback Fran Tarkenton with Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Leo Sayer as well as Donnie Harper and the Voices of Tomorrow/America as the musical guest.

This episode has it all: play-by-play strategy, Swiss Army guns, secret servicemen cheating on grade school tests, arm mutilation, R&B star Leo Sayer, discussions on race in sports, Francine on the recorder, bearded women and children, sexy news anchors, hook-up...

Live from the Bahamas (with Crazy Frank's girl) - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs rewatch and break down Saturday Night Live season 2, episode 12, which originally aired in January 1977 and was hosted by Academy Award-winning actress Ruth Gordon with rock and roll pioneer Chuck Berry as the musical guest.

This episode has it all: shady entertainment industry doctors, bare-ass changes, Barbra Streisand, pieces of toast, Chuck Berry's outfit, wildly low appliance prices, the Bob Seger hate club, TRICKS with JOHNS for your PIMPS, babies in makeup, various piss jars and a dusty flamingo. Take the dive!

Live from H-E double hockey sticks - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs tackle everything from an episode with host Ralph Nader and musical guest George Benson. This episode has it all: Mr. Goodtimes, calls with grandpa, televised executions, Andy Kaufman as Elvis Presley, lost world domination speeches and Ralph Nader's sex doll collection. Take the dive!

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Live from Santa's lap - it's Saturday Night Dive! Join the Zachs as they cover everything from an episode with returning host Candice Bergen and musical guest Frank Zappa. This episode has it all: Belushi's Bogart, sanitary holiday practices, Don Pardo as The Slime, the Bag'O toy line, Fern's identity crisis, tickles from Tom Schiller, processed cheese slices, multiple tree branch stabbings and Peaches En Regalia. Take the dive!

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Live from Loss Leader, New Jersey - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs tackle everything from an episode with youngest-yet host Jodie Foster and musical guest Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. This episode has it all: milk served in a Flintstones glass, feedbag dinners, television actor bees, sacks to hide your puberty in, Steve Bushakis, possessed chickens, invisible Don Pardos and interracial couples based on lies about race. Take the dive!

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Live from Crackerbox Palace - it's Saturday Night Dive! Join the Zachs as they cover everything from an episode with host Paul Simon paired up with musical guest and ex-Beatle George Harrison. This episode has it all: a cereal that's just rocks, less than 50 ways to leave your lover, a deli that welcomes Nazis, George Harrison's future wife Eric Clapton's wife, neapolitan ice cream, Neil Simon and apologies to Mr. Mike. Take the dive!

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Live from the Paramount Novelty Store - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs tackle everything from an episode of season two with host Dick Cavett (filling in for Elliott Gould) and musical guest Ry Cooder. This episode has it all: Puppy Uppers, Richard Nixon singing High Hopes, Ry Cooder, Gene Shalit the Bear, gay Marines, priest slaps, pressure groups, laugh bags, Bee racism and female mammary glands. Take the dive!

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Live from the Oculus - it's Saturday Night Dive! Join the Zachs as they tackle everything from an episode with three-time host Buck Henry and an extended performance from musical guest The Band, as well as being the final episode for Chevy Chase as a Not Ready for Primetime Player and the cut heard 'round the world. This episode truly has it all: fashion statement bandages, the First Lady (of television), Mr. Georgia, Gerald Ford with a mustache, warlocks, Old Dixie, and the devil's area code. Take the dive!

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Live from Plato's Cave - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs tackle everything from an episode that features the very first appearance of legend Steve Martin on the show with musical guest Kinky Friedman. This episode has it all - baseball coach lynchings, sucking a stool into your lungs, milk, legal baby killings, Drano murders and a fake Inuit named Blog. Take the dive!

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Live from a Peppercorn Airlines flight - it's Saturday Night Dive! Join the Zachs as they tackle everything from an episode of season 2 hosted by actress Karen Black with musical guest John Prine, everything from the most recent SNL celebrating Bowen Yang's legacy on the show and even a festive gift exchange between Zachs. This episode has it all: breastfeeding, presidential Name That Tune, cancer-free cupcakes, the A*M*I*S*H, romance between a queen and her horse, underwear that's meant to be seen, a raging party minus Mr. Bill and the theft of Lorne Michael's desk. Take the...

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Live from the art fair in the gymnasium at Rose Cage High School in Summit - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs tackle a season two episode hosted by Monty Python legend Eric Idle with musical guests Joe Cocker and Stuff. This episode has it all: Stuff, Richard Belzer, genetic counseling, statue circumcisions, headache injections, Nazis, dueling Cockers and drag queens drag racing. Take the dive!

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Live from the set of Maude - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs tackle an episode hosted by a television legend with a musical guest Zach Hall spoke to over the phone once. Of course, this episode has it all: Jean Stapleton, dress shirt collars that just won't quit, Pittsburgh snake handlers, Eric Idle reading a newspaper, Speedy Alka-Seltzer, mwendesday, pies in the face and Henry Kissinger. Take the dive!

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Live from the Holiday Inn (the big room, not the coffee shop) - it's Saturday Night Dive! Join the Zachs as they dive into the season two premiere, which sees the return of Lily Tomlin as host and the debut of James Taylor as musical guest. This episode has it all: Foreign Legionnaires Disease, rotary phones, Muppet morgues, the New Mall, hampster head grocery shopping, Taylor Mead and the Antler Dance. Dive in!

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Live from the Circle2 Lounge at Disc Golf Mart Indianapolis - it's Saturday Night Dive! The Zachs are taking one last deep dive into season 1 of Saturday Night Live before kicking off the next one. This episode has it all: giving out thumbs, 23.3% neutrality, men impersonating Carly Simon and that thing where '50s Lily Tomlin yells "hey, Frankie". Don't miss this dive!

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Live from the Kentucky coal mine to the California sun - it's Saturday Night Dive! The Zachs are recapping the first season finale of Saturday Night Live. That's right, one down fifty to go (so far)! This episode has everything: Herb Sargent's spanking fetish, Futaba's lubed-up finger, hula-hoops, the Great White Athlete, hors d'oeuvres, police brutality, Larry Farber, and hunky gynecologists. Take the dive!

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Live from John Belushi Wardrobe, Rock Center, New York, New York - it's Saturday Night Dive! Join the Zachs as they go insane diving into SNL's most awkward outing yet - anchored by an unsettling host performance from Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman's Louise Lasser. NO - Louise didn't actually hide in her dressing room to avoid being on camera. YES - this is the most uncomfortable and unsettling episode the Dive has covered yet.

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Live from a felt factory in Yorkshire - it's Saturday Night Dive! The Zachs are back to talk an exciting week in modern SNL and another classic episode of season one. Elliott Gould's second hosting gig has it all: pervert Chevy Chase, zip codes, blowjob implications, that thing where it's an episode of Star Trek but Herb Goodman orders the set to be torn down before the Captain's Log, nipples, white Shirley Temple Black, and children covering Al Jolson songs.

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Live from Dell Stator's Toad Ranch - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week, the Zachs cover an episode of SNL that has it all: Emmy winners, risk of penis harm, dead mangled puppies, Ronald Reagan's eyebrow peel, crowd lynchings, toilet seat shopping, sexologists, a Schubert craze and Tony Orlando & Dawn. Don't miss this latest dive!

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Live from the Balkan Playland - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week, join the Zachs as they steep deep into their favorite stars' bathwater and tackle everything from Dyan Cannon's week hosting NBC's Saturday Night. From toothpaste for dead kids to weird vibes from the married musical guests, this episode has it all!

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Live from San Clemente - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs are back in the Circle 2 Lounge to tackle an episode of season one hosted by comedy classics actress Madeline Kahn with an odd pre-taped musical performance by the elusive Carly Simon. From the opening Wilderness Comedian sketch to the dynamite impressions performed by Madeline Kahn and Gilda Radner, this episode has it all!

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Live from U.S. Council of Standards and Measures - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs tackle '70s sex icon Raquel Welch's hosting stint on SNL along with our first returning musical guest, Phoebe Snow, and the guy who did the Welcome Back, Kotter theme song for some reason. Belushi's Cocker is back, Chevy gets to the fall for once, America adopts the metric system of measurement, Claudine Longet cleans her gun and more in 102 action packed bisexual minutes of podcasting gold.

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Live from an oval office - it's Saturday Night Dive! The Zachs dive into an episode that is still surprisingly fascinating today. From Republicans and Democrats shaking hands to the visceral Patti Smith Group and being jammed with great sketches - this is an early one not to miss!

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Live from Not Australia, you think it'd be Australia but it's not, look pal - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs tackle Psycho star Anthony Perkins' and jazz singer Betty Carter's first and only time appearing on the show. The Dive covers it all: Chevy padding for time, Perkins' creepiness, showtune therapy, rogue Muppets, brown weed, Kierkegaard reports and much, much more.

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Live from the White Guilt Relief Fund - it's Saturday Night Dive! Join the Zachs as a middling season one episode has them losing their minds. Not even a heaping handful of Car Yummies or a few expertly performed "chick chicks" here can keep our two Zachs from going mad.

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Live from the Tropicana Club - it's Saturday Night Dive! Join the Zachs as they dive into an episode hosted by the man who practically invented comedy television as we know it today. Desi hosts the show with the help of his son, Desi Arnaz Jr. both in sketches and in his musical performances. Gilda takes the task of stepping into the iconic shoes of Lucy Ricardo, as she and Desi babalu through Studio 8H in the goodnights conga.

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Live from the second floor of the Blaine Hotel - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week in 1976, Valentine's Day and Saturday Night Live day were one and the same. Join the Zachs as they tackle Young Frankenstein's take on a lovers romp in an episode that holds flimsy orgy excuses, solicited kisses from children, intense scatting and the most iconic wrestling match of all time.

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Live from the Apple Follies Silent Theatre - it's Saturday Night Dive! Join the Zachs as they dive into an episode light on great sketches but heavy on a host with lots of daytime talk show rizz. Also, the Zachs tackle everything going on in the SNL casting news over the last week - and more!

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