“Saturday Night Live” celebrates 49th anniversary with original songs

As Saturday Night Live marks a groundbreaking season, the NBC sketch comedy show throws it back to 1975.

We celebrate the 49th anniversary of SNLWith the first airing of “Season 50” continuing this weekend, the show shared its original opening credits sequence on social media on Friday.

“SNL Premiere on October 11, 1975!” They wrote on X with the intro clip for the track at the time Saturday evening.

The cast included George Carlin, Janis Ian, Billy Preston, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, George Coe, Michael O’Donoghue, Valri Bromfield and Andy Kaufman with a film by Albert Brooks and Jim Henson’s Muppets.

In honor of the anniversary, Jason Reitman’s Saturday evening Premieres in cinemas on Friday. The film takes place on October 11, 1975, when a wild group of young comedians and writers changed television forever. Previously titled SNL 1975The film tells the true story of what happened from behind the scenes that evening in the 90 minutes before it premiered SNL.