There is no doubt that in the last decade SNL has grown steadily in viewers and you might think that it has been a smooth ride for late night's highest rated show, and if you knew about the 20 Emmys it has won or its Peabody awards then you would most likely have no doubt it has been all glitz and glory. However, I'm here to educate you on the facts. After the show's amazing start it began to slowly lose its humor and in 1979 the entire original cast and writers quit citing the shows loss of humor. Even the shows then and now executive producer quit. After this massive exodus of talent SNL had to rebuild, unfortunately all its building material was flawed. Its one saving grace was Eddie Murphy who joined the cast in 1980. Unfortunately, the next five years would come to be called "The Eddie Murphy Show" despite a few other talented cast members, such as Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Joe Piscopo. After Murphy's leaving there was the first "Celebrity Cast". It included big names like Billy Crystal, Martin Short, and Christopher Guest. I have watched several episodes from this time and in my opinion Billy Crystal and Jim Balouchi were two of the funniest cast members ever. However, critics and ratings didn't seem to think so and the show came close to termination. Then a miracle occurred and Lorne Michaels returned in 1985. From that point forward the show took off and the ratings and are still climbing today. Now that my time is running short let's review briefly what I have said.

SNL ran its first broadcast on October 11, 1975. During this time period the Tonight Show was hosted by Johnny Carson, Tiger Woods had just been born, VHS was introduced, a woman climbed Mount Everest, and Paul McCartney was fined for growing marijuana. The show wasn't originally going to be called Saturday Night Live because at that time sportscaster Howard Cosell was using it for his

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