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Live Music Archive Librivox Free Audio. Featured. All Audio; SNL Mardi Gras Special (1977) by SNL. Publication date 1977-02-20 Topics snl, mardi gras Language English A look back at SNL’s 1977 Mardi Gras special from New Orleans, which didn’t exactly work out as planned. Featuring quotes from Lorne Michaels, Randy Newman, Alan Zweibel, Anne Beatts, and more. Welcome to SN Hell!Part lost gem, part hidden treasure, part train wreck it's SN Hell's look at the 1977 Live Prime Time Saturday Night Mardi Gras Special. Live From Mardi Gras was an Saturday Night Live special that premiered on February 20, 1977. The cast and crew participate in the annual Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans. Jane Curtin and Buck Henry try to provide commentary on the parade. Eric Idle, Penny Marshall and Henry Winkler cameo in the Live from Mardi Gras: Directed by Dave Wilson, Gary Weis. With Randy Newman, Buck Henry, Eric Idle, Penny Marshall. There's no host for this broadcast. Randy Newman is the musical guest for this episode, which is performed live in New Orleans for the Mardi Gras celebration. A Mardi Gras episode of Saturday Night Live made sense in theory. Saturday Night Live was the biggest party on television. Audiences got drunk and high and watched it with their friends. Mardi Gras was the biggest party in the whole damn country. Why not have the Not Ready For Prime Time Players crash it? The special promised to be a logistical Forty-one years ago today, the very first episode of "Saturday Night Live" aired, on Oct. 11, 1975. It would, of course, become an instant and enduring cultural sensation. Actress and former Saturday Night Live castmember Jane Curtin detailed her awful experience when the long-running sketch comedy series infamously went to New Orleans for a live 1977 Mardi Gras Mardi Gras February 20, 1977 Special Guests: Buck Henry, Eric Idle, Penny Marshall, The New Leviathan Orchestra, Randy Newman, Cindy Jimmy Carter Live Because that wouldn't be fair to this special. We're both huge fans of the "original cast" era of Saturday Night Live. This Mardi Gras special was broadcast once and never re-shown on television. This gave it a legendary status among fans of SNL. Part of the allure of SNL is that "anything can happen" on live tv. But cast members and hosts have Actress and former Saturday Night Live castmember Jane Curtin detailed her awful experience when the long-running sketch comedy series infamously went to New Orleans for a live 1977 Mardi Gras Forty-one years ago today, the very first episode of "Saturday Night Live" aired, on Oct. 11, 1975. It would, of course, become an instant and enduring cultural sensation. That's what you get for putting on "Saturday Night Live" during Mardi Gras: pure bedlam. In 1977, SNL was in the middle of its second season, still riding a high with its four Emmys from the 1975 The Meters perform “Hey Pocky A-Way” and “Mardi Gras Mambo”Note: The Meters were originally to close the broadcast while performing these local favorites, but ended up cut from the show entirely. They did get a chance to play on SNL a month later, though, by that time, keyboardist Art Neville had already left the group. I vaguely remember The Fonz being at Mardi Gras, but I was just a kid. Watch here on the internet archive! What the professor said: The whole affair was off from the very beginning. Saturday Night Live, starring The Not-Ready for Primetime Players, doing a live 2 hour primetime special in New Orleans, during Carnivalon a Sunday night. FloRida will perform Saturday night. Mardi Gras Southeast Texas is kicking off on Friday, Feb. 28, 2025 and will run through Sunday, Mar. 2, 2025, at Doggett Ford Park in Beaumont. Skip Navigation How to stream Saturday night's 2025 Valero Krewe of Krewes Parade at Mardi Gras Southeast Texas on 12News+ 12News will be live streaming the big parade on 12News+ on Saturday night, March 1, 2025 Mardi Gras February 20, 1977 Special Guests: Buck Henry, Eric Idle, Penny Marshall, The New Leviathan Orchestra, Randy Newman, Cindy Jimmy Carter Live Saturday Night Live Transcripts Season 2: Mardi Gras Special Saturday Night Live Transcripts Season 2: Mardi Gras Special. This "Saturday Night Live" special from New Orleans during Mardi Gras was a pretty entertaining mess As a kid, I think I remember watching some of this Sunday primetime special ep of "SNL", specifically the part where John Belushi as trumpeter Al Hirt was hit with prop bricks.
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