{excerpted from History online} Saturday Night Live (SNL), representing a new kind of comedic late-night variety show, debuted on NBC on October 11, 1975 starring then relatively unknown comedians Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Garrett Morris, Jane Curtin and Laraine Newman. It would go on to become the longest-running, highest-rated show on […]