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| George Carlin
| Billy Preston & Janis Ian
| October 11, 1975
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- The cold open features John Belushi as a foreign man learning English being taught by writer Michael O'Donoghue. Following this sketch, Chevy Chase appeared with a headset on and bellows the first "Live From New York, It's Saturday Night!"
- As host, George Carlin performed stand-up, introduced the musical guests, and conducted the goodnight segment. Carlin performed three monologues, including "Baseball-Football".
- Andy Kaufman appeared in a segment consisting of him playing the Mighty Mouse theme on a record player.
- Valri Bromfield makes a guest appearance. Jacqueline Carlin appeared as the mother in the "New Dad Insurance" sketch and as the woman with a book in the "Academy of Better Careers" sketch. Wendy Craig appeared as the salesman in the "Academy of Better Careers" sketch. Richard Belzer (the show's warm-up comedian), writer Tom Davis, and talent coordinator Neil Levy appear as jurors in the "Courtroom" sketch.
- Billy Preston performed "Nothing from Nothing" and "Fancy Lady". Janis Ian performed "At Seventeen" and "In the Winter".
- Sketches include the Bees; the Albert Brooks film, "The Impossible Truth"; "Trojan Horse Home Security"; "Triple-Trac"; and The Land of Gorch, with Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Rhonda Hansome, and Alice Tweedy.
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| Paul Simon
| Randy Newman, Phoebe Snow, Art Garfunkel & Jessy Dixon Singers
| October 18, 1975
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| 3
| Rob Reiner
| none
| October 25, 1975
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| 4
| 4
| Candice Bergen
| Esther Phillips
| November 8, 1975
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| 5
| 5
| Robert Klein
| ABBA & Loudon Wainwright III
| November 15, 1975
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| 6
| Lily Tomlin
| Tomlin with Howard Shore & the All Nurse Band
| November 22, 1975
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| 7
| Richard Pryor
| Gil Scott-Heron
| December 13, 1975
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- Gil Scott-Heron performed "Johannesburg" and "A Lovely Day".
- Thalmus Rasulala appeared as one of the priests in the "Exorcist II" sketch. Annazette Chase appeared as Polly in the "Black & White" sketch. At Pryor's insistence, his ex-wife Shelley Pryor and Kathrine McKee, his then-current girlfriend make cameo appearances.
- Sketches include "Samurai Futaba," "The Land of Gorch," and an Albert Brooks's film, "sick". This was the first appearance of Belushi's Samurai character.
- The episode introduces the recurring catchphrase "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" during Weekend Update.
- At Pryor's insistence Paul Mooney was hired as a writer Mooney wrote some of Pryor's routines, including the "Racist Word Association Interview".
- The show was broadcast on a seven second delay.
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| 8
| Candice Bergen
| Martha Reeves & The Stylistics
| December 20, 1975
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| 9
| Elliott Gould
| Anne Murray
| January 10, 1976
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*Anne Murray performed the songs "The Call" and "Blue Finger Lou".
- The episode features an Albert Brooks film, Audience Test Screenings. Other sketches include "Interior Demolitionists" and a Shimmer commercial parody.
- Paula Kahn makes a cameo appearance. Jim Henson, Alice Tweedy, Jerry Nelson, and Frank Oz perform their characters in "The Land of Gorch".
- The episode was submitted for the Emmy Award consideration and won SNL its first Emmy in 1977.
- Lorne Michaels appears on camera for the first time in the series during a "Killer Bees" sketch gone wrong.
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| 10
| 10
| Buck Henry
| Bill Withers & Toni Basil
| January 17, 1976
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| 11
| 11
| Peter Cook & Dudley Moore
| Neil Sedaka
| January 24, 1976
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- Scred from "The Land of Gorch" appeared in a bee costume hoping to be in The Bees sketch, only to be told by Gilda Radner that the sketch was canceled. Scred joins Gilda into introducing Neil Sedaka.
- Sedaka performed the songs "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" and "Lonely Night".
- The episode features the sketch, "Lifer Follies," auditions in a prison warden's office for an upcoming inmate talent show, which includes Garrett Morris' "Shotgun" song.
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| 12
| 12
| Dick Cavett
| Jimmy Cliff
| January 31, 1976
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| 13
| Peter Boyle
| Al Jarreau
| February 14, 1976
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- The Shapiro Sisters dance and lip-sync to the song "This Will Be". One of the sisters, Jenny, also appeared in a sketch.
- Al Jarreau performed the songs "We Got By" and "Pretty as a Picture".
- Steven Spielberg makes an appearance in the audience while Peter Boyle sings a love song to his "wife".
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| 14
| Desi Arnaz
| Desi Arnaz & Desi Arnaz, Jr.
| February 21, 1976
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- Arnaz and his son perform the songs "Cuban Pete" and "Babalu".
- Actor Taylor Mead makes a filmed cameo appearance.
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| Jill Clayburgh
| Leon Redbone & The Idlers
| February 28, 1976
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- A cappella group The Idlers and comedian Andy Kaufman make cameo appearances. Host Jill Clayburgh appeared with these guests.
- Photographer and video artist William Wegman appeared with his dog in Gary Weis' filmed piece.
- Leon Redbone performed the songs "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Big Time Woman".
- The first appearance of Mister Bill, in response to the show's request for home movies.
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