It was one of the first catchphrases from the series ( which later became Saturday Night Live, or SNL ) to enter the general lexicon.

Aykroyd's eccentric talent was recognized by others in the highly competitive SNL environment: when he first presented his famous " Super Bass-O-Matic ' 76 " sketch, a fake T. V.

He was the second SNL cast member to be nominated for an Oscar, the first being Joan Cusack.

Simon's most recent SNL appearance was on the February 18, 2012 episode hosted by Maya Rudolph.

In one SNL skit from 1986 ( when he was promoting Graceland ), Simon plays himself, waiting in line with a friend to get into a movie.

To promote the new album, Prince was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live on February 4, 2006, seventeen years after his last SNL appearance on the 15th anniversary special and nearly 25 years since his first appearance on a regular episode in 1981, making Prince the only SNL musical guest to have that long of a gap between appearances.

All You Need Is Cash, directed by SNL film director Gary Weis ( responsible for the programme's short films ), though Idle was credited as co-director.

According to writer-comedian Bob Odenkirk, Candy was reputedly the " most-burned potential host " of SNL, in that he was asked to host many times, only to be told ' no thanks ' by the SNL staff at the last minute.

Saturday Night Live personnel, including Lorne Michaels, Mike Myers ( who had, in his own words, " fallen in love " with Radner after playing her son in a BC Hydro commercial on Canadian television and considered her the reason he wanted to be on SNL ) and Phil Hartman, had not known she was so close to death.

In a nasty memo to fellow SNL colleagues, Belushi said that he was unhappy that Shaffer was spending so much time on a studio record for Radner.

It was during her tenure on SNL that she met writer Larry David, who would later co-create Seinfeld.

More recently Louis-Dreyfus has commented that her casting on SNL was a " Cinderella-getting-to-go-to-the-ball kind of experience ", however, she has also admitted that at times it was often quite tense, stating that she " didn't know how to navigate the waters of show business in general and specifically doing a live sketch-comedy show.

Following her 1985 departure from SNL, Louis-Dreyfus appeared in several films, including Hannah and Her Sisters which was directed by Woody Allen, and the cult classic National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation in which she starred alongside Chevy Chase.

After a successful reception from her 2006 episode, Louis-Dreyfus was invited again to host SNL on March 17, 2007.

Sarducci also hosted two SNL episodes during the 1983-1984 ( when Dick Ebersol was executive producer ) and cameoed during two 1990s episodes, most notably on a Weekend Update segment where he reports on Pope John Paul II's missing wallet.

One of Morris's best known characters on SNL was the Dominican baseball player Chico Escuela.

According to the book Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live, Morris was frequently unhappy during his tenure on SNL from 1975 – 1980, and expressed the opinion that he was usually typecast in stereotypical roles.

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Recurring characters on SNL played by Guest include Frankie, of Willie and Frankie ( coworkers who recount in detail physically painful situations in which they have found themselves, remarking laconically " I hate when that happens "); Herb Minkman, a shady novelty toymaker with a brother named Al ( played by Crystal ); Rajeev Vindaloo, an eccentric foreign man in the same vein as Andy Kaufman's Latka character from Taxi ; and Senor Cosa, a Spanish ventriloquist often seen on the recurring spoof of The Joe Franklin Show.

In the 2009 video game Borderlands, the player partakes in a boss fight against a pair of beefy, muscular men named Hans and Franz, a reference to the SNL duo.

Following the announcement of the creation of SNL Studios, veteran Saturday Night Live producer Marci Klein was named as the president of SNL Studios Television in December 1999, while Richard Feldman was appointed head of SNL Studios Films in June of the same year.

Though McKay was never an actual SNL cast member, he did make several on-camera appearances over the years and had a recurring role as an obnoxious audience member named " Keith " who would often shout insults at the celebrity hosts during their opening monologue.

He wrote the script after meeting Will Arnett through Arnett's wife, SNL castmate Amy Poehler, considering him ideal for the role of John Solomon ( named after his writing partner John Solomon ).

On NBC's sitcom 30 Rock, Liz Lemon's recurring boyfriend, a recovering alcoholic, is named Floyd De Barber and played by SNL cast member Jason Sudeikis.

This dual nature of the Swazi economy, with high productivity in textile manufacturing and in the industrialized agricultural TDLs on the one hand, and declining productivity subsistence agriculture ( on SNL ) on the other, may well explain the country ’ s overall low growth, high inequality and unemployment.

With the December 18, 2010 episode, Bridges beat Sigourney Weaver's record for longest gap between hosting appearances on SNL ( Weaver had a 24-year gap between her first time hosting in 1986 and her second time hosting in 2010, while Bridges had a 27-year gap between his first appearance in 1983 and his most recent one, also in 2010 ).

Alan Zweibel, who co-created the Roseanne Roseannadanna character and co-wrote all of Roseanne's dialogue, recalled that Radner, one of three original SNL cast members who stayed away from cocaine, chastised him for using it.

In the fall of 1980, after all original SNL cast members departed from the show, Radner starred opposite Sam Waterston in the Jean Kerr play, Lunch Hour, as a pair whose spouses are having an affair, and in response invent one of their own, consisting of trysts on their lunch hour.

Most of his appearances on SNL have been on Weekend Update, including one where he reported that " The take at the shrines in Italy has gone down " which he suggested correcting by creating " Shrinemobiles " and thus taking the shrines to where the people were, and another where he is sent to London to try to wake up Paul McCartney at 4: 30 in the morning ( 11: 30 in New York ) by throwing coins, obnoxiously singing The Beatles and Wings songs, and finally, throwing a rock at the window ( he says it works every time ).

He also was a writer for Jean Doumanian's sixth season from 1980 to 1981, making him one of the few cast members to work for all three producers of SNL ( Lorne Michaels, Jean Doumanian, and Dick Ebersol ).

He was replaced by one of his SNL colleagues, Mike Myers.

In December 1976, on one SNL episode, Pardo participated in a musical performance by Frank Zappa, reciting a verse of the song " I'm the Slime ".

She even invited Ana Gasteyer, who parodied her on SNL, to appear on stage during one of her performances.

Recurring features of the Fallon / Fey era included the " Update Door ", a door on the left of the set where celebrities, as impersonated by SNL cast members ( and at one time the Landshark ), would walk through to do a commentary ; a segment called " Terrible ReEnactments ", in which Chris Kattan would do an intentionally bad re-enactment of a news story that had occurred during the week ( usually the story involved a celebrity being injured ); and regular appearances from Jeff Richards ' Drunk Girl character.

And just like one of its warnings in the SNL sketch, it did accelerate to dangerous speeds, enough to crush the armored car.

At SNL, Short helped revive the show with his many characters for the show's tenth season ( the last one produced by Dick Ebersol ), which was in danger of falling in quality, thanks to the departures of Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo, so Ebersol decided to fill his cast with experienced actors and comedy performers in order to keep the show alive ( Lorne Michaels would attempt the same thing in season 11, with disastrous results ).

In the early 1990s, Wendt made cameo appearances on several episodes of SNL as Bob Swerski, one of the Chicago Superfans ( along with castmembers Chris Farley, Mike Myers, Robert Smigel, and one-time host, Joe Mantegna ).

After the 1985-1986 season proved to be a disappointment with critics, in the ratings, and with Brandon Tartikoff ( who was planning to have SNL canceled by the last episode of season 11 due to its sliding ratings ), Michaels fired most of the cast and writers, retained the cast and writers who were standouts during the otherwise dismal season ( Smigel being one of them ), and hired new ones for the 1986-1987 season.

The School for New Learning ( SNL ), created in 1972, was one of the first university-wide efforts in the United States to serve adult students through a separate college.

His recurring characters included Mr. Peepers, Mango, Azrael Abyss, Kyle DeMarco from The DeMarco Brothers, Gay Hitler, Suel Forrester ( known for the term " dagitybo ") and, most notably, one half of the Butabi Brothers with fellow SNL ( and Groundlings ) cast member Will Ferrell, known for their trademark head-bobbing.

Vance was the first African American woman to become a SNL repertory player ( not to be confused with Yvonne Hudson from season six, who first appeared as a recurring extra for season four and season five and was hired as a feature player during Jean Doumanian's notoriously shaky sixth season ), the only SNL cast member to have a learning disability ( Vance was dyslexic and, according to Al Franken in the book, Live from New York: The Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, Vance had trouble memorizing lines and reading cue cards, though it wasn't made apparent in most cases and, in one case, was covered up by ad-libbing ), was the first lesbian cast member hired ( though her sexual orientation wasn't known until her death ), and the only black lesbian cast member as of 2012.

At a Groundlings performance in 1989, Saturday Night Live ( SNL ) producer Lorne Michaels discovered Sweeney and offered her a spot as one of SNL's featured players.

The third episode of season two began with Simpson celebrating her 20th birthday ( her birthday was on October 3, while the SNL performance took place about three weeks later, so this segment of episode three actually predated the events of the first two episodes ), before continuing with Simpson deciding to cut her hair shorter ( a decision which her mother was not pleased with ) and then filming her video for " La La " and doing a photoshoot for Entertainment Weekly, since she was chosen as one of EWs breakout artists of the year.

Poehler joined the cast of SNL during the 2001 – 02 season, her debut episode being the first one produced after the 9 / 11 attacks – with host Reese Witherspoon, musical guest Alicia Keys, and New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani as a special guest.

This sketch was one of the most popular on SNL, and the characters and their catchphrases entered American pop culture.