Saturday Night Live: Season 2
Saturday Night Live Season 2 continues the overarching saga across 22 episodes. The late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show was created by Lorne Michaels. As a late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show, it features comedic sketches that parody contemporary culture and politics. The production ranks among the most prestigious programs of its kind and has launched the careers of numero
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Saturday Night Live is a late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels.
- The program is broadcast live from New York and features comedic sketches that parody contemporary culture and politics.
- The series is recognized as one of the most prestigious, popular, and longest-running shows of its kind in the world.
- The show features a cast of famous actors and comedians, including Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, and Bill Murray.
Season overview
Saturday Night Live Season 2 continues the overarching saga across 22 episodes. The late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show was created by Lorne Michaels. As a late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show, it features comedic sketches that parody contemporary culture and politics. The production ranks among the most prestigious programs of its kind and has launched the careers of numerous famous actors and comedians, including Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, and others. Broadcast live, the series maintains its status as one of the most popular and longest-running talk and variety shows in the world, delivering weekly entertainment centered on live comedic performances and topical satire from New York.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
Lily Tomlin/James Taylor
Sep 18, 1976 · 67 min
Live from New York, It's...Chevy Chase Sketches include-- Big shot Lily Tomlin will do the show without rehearsing, "Debate 76", Legionnaire's Disease Outbreak, The Phone Company,
Norman Lear/Boz Scaggs
Sep 25, 1976 · 67 min
Live from New York, It's...Chevy Chase (On telephone) Sketches include-- Gilda plans to do the fall, Jimmy Carter speaks on sexual performance in the White House, Chevy's Girls, T
Eric Idle/Joe Cocker and Stuff
Oct 2, 1976 · 67 min
Live from New York, it's..Chevy Chase (on telephone)! Sketches include-- Hospitalized Chevy confronts impostor, Designer Babies, KLOG Deejay, The Killer Bees, Cufflinks of the God
Karen Black/John Prine
Oct 16, 1976 · 67 min
Live from New York, it's...Chevy Chase! Sketches include-- Chevy returns, "Baba Wawa at Large," Debate '76, A*M*I*S*H, Cancer-free Cupcakes, "Love Russian Style," The Lunch Count
Steve Martin/Kinky Friedman
Oct 23, 1976 · 67 min
Sketches include "Yankees Lose," "Jeopardy 1999," "Speak Out For Milk", "The Beatnik Club," "Ted Baxter Kills Mary Richards," "Looks at Books," and "Mysteries in Medicine." Kinky
Buck Henry/The Band
Oct 30, 1976 · 67 min
Sketches include-- Trick or Treating Land Shark, "Not For Ladies Only", Samurai Stockbroker, Garrett Morris's Family History, Debate 76, Super Bass-O-Matic 77, "The OintMENt", Mr.
Dick Cavett/Ry Cooder
Nov 13, 1976 · 67 min
Live from New York, It's...Gilda Radner Sketches include-- Chroma Trak Girl, Puppy Uppers and Doggie Downers, Nixon's Watergate Frame-up, Crossroads, Grandparent Bees, Mr.Mike's L
Paul Simon/Paul Simon, George Harrison
Nov 20, 1976 · 67 min
Live from New York, It's...George Harrison Sketches include-- Paul Simon meets pauper Chevy Chase on sidewalk while Lorne talks with George Harrison, Quarry, "Baba Wawa at Large",
Jodie Foster/Brian Wilson
Nov 27, 1976 · 67 min
Live from New York, It's...Gilda Radner Sketches include-- Gilda wont be in much of tonight's show, Wendy, Bee Peter Pan and Tinkerbee, Rovco's Puberty Helper, Metal Man, Steve Ba
Candice Bergen/Frank Zappa
Dec 11, 1976 · 67 min
Live from New York, it's... Gilda Radner! Sketches include: "Patty Hearst At Home," "Jimmy Carter Can't Keep His Promises," "Santi-Wrap," Consumer Probe, Fern and Friend in PSA fo
Ralph Nader/George Benson
Jan 15, 1977 · 67 min
Live from New York, It's...Ralph Nader Sketches include-- Ralph Nader wants to cut loose, Badmouthing Grandfather, Dress Rehearsal for Execution, The Confederate Takeover, "Baba W
Ruth Gordon/Chuck Berry
Jan 22, 1977 · 67 min
Live from New York, it's...Ruth Gordon! Sketches include-- Belushi's too sick to do the show, Barbara Streisand, Emily Litella and Her Sister, Tomorrow with Tom Snyder, Little Old
Fran Tarkenton/Leo Sayer
Jan 29, 1977 · 67 min
Live from New York, it's...Fran Tarkenton! Sketches include "Locker Room Pep Talk," "Swiss Army Gun," "Amy Carter in School," "Chambers' Missing Arm," "Black Perspective," "Home R
Steve Martin/The Kinks
Feb 26, 1977 · 67 min
Live from New York, It's... Steve Martin! Sketches include "Steve Martin's Ego Trip," "Coneheads' Tax Audit," "Celebrity Weightlifting," "Dr. Breadloaf's Quickloss Diet Book," "P
Sissy Spacek/Richard Baskin
Mar 12, 1977 · 67 min
Live From New York, It's...Sissy Spacek! Sketches include-- "Dave Wilson's Dead," "Burger Master," "Ask President Carter", ""Belushi's Olympic Dream," "Gidget's Disease," "Bad Pla
Broderick Crawford/Dr. John, The Meters
Mar 19, 1977 · 67 min
Live From New York, it's... Laraine Newman, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, & Linda Ronstadt! Sketches include "Goodbye Saccharine," "Samurai Hit-Man," "Broderick's Old Neighborhood" (
Jack Burns/Santana
Mar 26, 1977 · 67 min
Live From New York, It's...John Belushi Sketches include-- Belushi Refuses to Say Live From New York, The Coneheads, Marine Wedding, "The Untouchables", "The Story of The Squatter
Julian Bond/Brick
Apr 9, 1977 · 67 min
Live From New York, It's...Gilda Radner Sketches include-- Emily Litella's New Love, Lowell Brock, Black Perspective, "Dr.X, Family Counselor", Right On Afro Lustre, Great Moments
Elliott Gould/McGarrigle Sisters
Apr 16, 1977 · 67 min
Live From New York, It's...John Belushi! Sketches include-- Brezhnev Wants to Appear on Carson, The Castration Walk, Nick The Lounge Singer, You've Come a Long Way, Buddy, United
Eric Idle/Neil Innes
Apr 23, 1977 · 67 min
Live From New York, It's...Bill Murray Sketches include-- Potato Torture, The American Dope Growers Union, "The Nixon Interviews", Flight Attendant Sherry, "Plain Talk", "Heavy Wi
Shelley Duvall/Joan Armatrading
May 14, 1977 · 67 min
Live From New York, It's...John Belushi Sketches include-- Bee Sketch Is Pre-Empted by Norton-Bobick Fight, Video Vixens, Badly Disguised Bank Robber, Viva Las Vegas II, "Baba Waw
Buck Henry/Kenny Vance, Jennifer Warnes
May 21, 1977 · 67 min
Live From New York, It's...Gilda Radner Sketches include-- Carter's Energy Saving Message, Buck Performs A Live Sex Act, Samurai B.M.O.C, The Shower Mike, The Coneheads Return to