1SNL audition
When you do an audition for SNL, regardless if you are chosen and without compensation, SNL owns your characters and likeness after the audition.
2Jenny Slate
Jenny Slate got fired from SNL for dropping the F-bomb.
3Kanye West
In 2007, Kanye West had a skit on SNL about interrupting award ceremonies. This was about 2 years prior to the Taylor Swift MTV Music Video Awards incident.
4SNL Season 6
Saturday Night Live season 6 (1980) saw the entire cast and all but one writer leave. The replacements all flopped. It was all precipitated by Charles Rocket swearing on air. Nearly everyone was fired and new guy Eddie Murphy was one of the only two retained.
5Johnny Carson
Saturday Night Live was created because in 1974 Johnny Carson petitioned NBC for more time off.
6Live From New York
The original title of Saturday Night Live was "NBC's Saturday Night", due to the existence of an ABC show titled "Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell". This is why the famous opening phrase is worded "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!."
7George Carlin
George Carlin hosted the very first episode of Saturday Night Live.
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8Eddie Murphy
When Eddie Murphy was on SNL in the early 80s, other cast members often had to go downstairs after shows to catch a cab for him because no cab drivers would stop for a young black man late at night.
9The Office
In 2008, Saturday Night Live did a Japanese parody of 'The Office' with Ricky Gervais and Steve Carell.
10Frank Zappa
When Frank Zappa hosted SNL in 1978, he was unpopular with most of the cast because of his anti-drug stance. During the live performance, he would regularly mug for the camera and point out that he was reading from cue cards.
