For example, in the movie Chevy Chase is basically offered a job as Johnny Carson's successor not after becoming the first breakout star of Saturday Night Live, but instead after spending about 45 ...

Original Saturday Night Live star Laraine Newman has addressed the accuracy of Saturday Night, contrasting the movie to the sketch ... threatening phone call from Johnny Carson (Jeff Witzke ...

receives a call from Johnny Carson himself in Burbank, California. Voicing a lack of support, Carson even becomes threatening ...

“Saturday ... in the “SNL” movie. On the whole, yes. Reitman talked to many, many people involved with the debut of “SNL” to get a real sense of what that first night was like.

The “Saturday Night” crew rebuilt the entire eighth and ninth floors of Rockefeller Center and had 58 mics on the set capturing the ambiance. “It’s a loud, crazy-ass movie,“ Reitman said.

Nor is he likely to now: Saturday Night, a movie about his show ... at the time could have safely programmed weekend reruns of Johnny Carson. Indeed, Carson himself, grumpy and remote, emerges ...

No, Reitman’s movie is striving for a myth of “Saturday ... night, it’s to overcome a cigar-chomping old guard of network television. (Milton Berle is skulking about, even Johnny Carson ...

but “Saturday Night” is truly their nostalgia fest. Performers like O’Brien and Hunt could bring in younger fans who’ve never seen those early “SNL” episodes, but the movie will mean ...

You’re watching a movie that is 90 minutes of real time, the 90 minutes leading to the first episode of “Saturday Night Live ... Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,” and this venture ...

No, Reitman’s movie ... Johnny Carson phones in.) In their eyes, Michaels is, to paraphrase Ned Beatty in Network, meddling with the primal forces of nature. A clock ticking down to showtime runs as ...

No, Reitman’s movie is striving for a myth of “Saturday ... night, it’s to overcome a cigar-chomping old guard of network television. (Milton Berle is skulking about, even Johnny Carson ...