Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell

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Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell

Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell was a program that ran on ABC from September 1975

1975 in television

The year 1975 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1975.For the United States TV schedule, see: 1975-76 American network television schedule....
to January 1976

1976 in television

The year 1976 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1976....
, hosted by Howard Cosell

Howard Cosell

Howard William Cosell was an American sports journalist....
.

A program called NBC's Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live is a weekly late-night 90-minute American sketch comedy/variety show filmed in New York City. It made its debut on October 11, 1975....
debuted the same year. Once Cosell's show was cancelled, the NBC show renamed itself Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live is a weekly late-night 90-minute American sketch comedy/variety show filmed in New York City. It made its debut on October 11, 1975....
.

The Cosell show featured Bill Murray

Bill Murray

'William James' "'Bill'" 'Murray' is an Academy Award-nominated United States comedian and actor. He first gained national exposure on Saturday Night Live, following that with roles in films such as Stripes , Caddyshack, The Razor's Edge , Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day , Space Jam, Rushmore and What Abo...
, Brian Doyle-Murray

Brian Doyle-Murray

Brian Doyle-Murray is an United States comedian, screenwriter and actor. An alumnus of Saturday Night Live, he is the brother of Emmy Award Winning actor Bill Murray and has acted together with him in several films, including Caddyshack, Scrooged, and Groundhog Day ....
, and Christopher Guest

Christopher Guest

Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest , better known as Christopher Guest, is an United States screenwriter, composer, musician, director, actor and comedian....
as regular comedy performers, dubbed "The Prime Time Players." In response, the NBC show called its regular performers "the Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time Players".

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Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell was a program that ran on ABC from September 1975

1975 in television

1976 in television

The year 1976 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1976....
, hosted by Howard Cosell

Howard Cosell

Bill Murray

Brian Doyle-Murray

Christopher Guest

John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
and Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono

, born in Tokyo on February 18, 1933, is a Japanese people artist and musician. She is known for her work as an avant-garde artist and musician, and her marriage and works with musician John Lennon....
were fans of Cosell, and wanted to appear on Saturday Night Live. They never made the premiere episode, on which Lennon and Ono hoped The Beatles

The Beatles

The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
would reunite. Instead, Cosell played host to the Bay City Rollers

Bay City Rollers

The Bay City Rollers were a Scotland pop/rock band of the 1970s. Their youthful, clean-cut image, distinct styling featuring tartan-trimmed outfits, and cheery, sing-along pop hits helped the group become among the most popular musical acts of their time....
, whom he dubbed "the next" British phenomenon.

Guests

20 September 1975: Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal

'William Edward' "'Billy'" 'Crystal' is an United States actor, writer, film producer, comedian, and film director. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Jodie Dallas on the American Broadcasting Company sitcom Soap and became a Hollywood film star during the late 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the box office successes Wh...
, Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
, Bay City Rollers
Bay City Rollers

The Bay City Rollers were a Scotland pop/rock band of the 1970s. Their youthful, clean-cut image, distinct styling featuring tartan-trimmed outfits, and cheery, sing-along pop hits helped the group become among the most popular musical acts of their time....
11 October 1975: Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow

Barry Manilow is an United States singer-songwriter, musician, arrangement, record producer and conducting, best known for such recordings as "I Write the Songs", "Mandy ", "Weekend in New England" and "Copacabana "....
, Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin

Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as "The Queen of Soul". Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, rock and roll, blues, Pop music, Rhythm and Blues and Gospel music....
, The Rockettes
The Rockettes

The Rockettes are a well-known precision dance company performing out of the Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan, New York City. During the Christmas season, the Rockettes have performed five shows a day, seven days a week, for 75 years....
8 November 1975: Roy Clark
Roy Clark

Roy Linwood Clark is a versatile and well-known country music musician and performer. He is best known for hosting Hee Haw, one of the first nationally televised country variety shows in the United States, from 1969?1992....
, Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal

'William Edward' "'Billy'" 'Crystal' is an United States actor, writer, film producer, comedian, and film director. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Jodie Dallas on the American Broadcasting Company sitcom Soap and became a Hollywood film star during the late 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the box office successes Wh...
, Ted Kennedy
Ted Kennedy

Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy is the Senior Senator United States Senate from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party . In office since November 1962, Kennedy is the list of current United States Senators by seniority member of the Senate, after President pro tempore of the United States Senate Robert Byrd of West Virginia....
, Chita Rivera
Chita Rivera

Chita Rivera is an American actress dancer, and singer best known for her roles in musical theater. She is the first Hispanic woman to receive a Kennedy Center Honors award ....
as Herself/Velma Kelly, and Gwen Verdon
Gwen Verdon

Gwyneth Evelyn ?Gwen? Verdon was an United States dancer and actress....
as Herself/Roxie Hart