SNL Set Change Live Video

On March 13, 2014 - TV History


When It Absolutely, Positively Has To Be There…SNL In ACTION!

This is a look at one of the many amazing set changes per show on television’s last bastion of the live comedy/variety shows. NBC’s first were ‘Four Star Review’ (1949) and ‘The Colgate Comedy Hour’ (1950) with hosts Eddie Cantor and the Martin & Lewis and Abbott & Costello duos. There is nothing like live television! Long live ‘Saturday Night Live’!

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/snl-backstage-set-transition/n12515

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8 Comments

  1. Charles MacDonald March 13, 2014

    Seems to be Geolocked, all I get is audio that “this content is currently unavailable”

  2. Lou Mannheimer March 13, 2014

    if the audience doesn’t see it then you didn’t mess it up…

  3. Chris Clementson March 13, 2014

    There’s a better show backstage than on stage.

  4. Dennis Degan March 13, 2014

    Yes, Gary! That was my favorite part as well. I work on Today, a live show also. Much of the first hour is spent under this same kind of stress. But just as the one who said ‘We’re screwed’, somehow it still all comes together for air. Not always pretty, but it’s there.

  5. Don Newbury March 13, 2014

    I also like looking for the mistakes. I have a copy of “Suspense” on DVD which was done live. At one point, you can see the cameraman being reflected in front of a mirror. It’s hilarious. You guys would know better than me but I’ll that stuff happened all the time.

  6. Don Newbury March 13, 2014

    That’s the reason I love watching the old classic TV videos, ‘Playhouse 90″ etc. It’s honestly so incredible how they pulled that off every week. It never ceases to amaze me.

  7. Zach Camerino March 13, 2014

    Crazy how fast they move. Go grippers!!!

  8. Gary Walters March 13, 2014

    Classic line ‘We’re screwed!’ Love Live TV!