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  • Saturday Night Live Norman Lear/Boz Scaggs (Season 2, Episode 2)
  • TV-14
    TV Episode | 90 min | Comedy, Music

Saturday Night Live

Norman Lear/Boz Scaggs (Season 2, Episode 2)
TV-14
TV Episode | 90 min | Comedy, Music

The host for the episode is Norman Lear, and the musical guest is Boz Scaggs. The skits for this episode are as follows: Chevy Chase, in the hospital after injuring himself in the previous episode, coaches Gilda Radner through the opening ...See moreThe host for the episode is Norman Lear, and the musical guest is Boz Scaggs. The skits for this episode are as follows: Chevy Chase, in the hospital after injuring himself in the previous episode, coaches Gilda Radner through the opening via telephone. Norman Lear gets to hear what the actors in his shows really think of him. Jimmy Carter discusses lust in his heart and looks forward to more lusting as president. Norman Lear reviews the pilot of a new show about a family of snake handlers in Pittsburgh. During the Weekend Update, Jane Curtain discusses the Ford-Carter debate, Patty Hearst's sentencing, Elton John's sexuality and the sex lives of nuns, while Laraine Newman reports from Times Square for the upcoming Jewish New Year. The women of SNL sing a get-well song for Chevy, wishing he would fall for them. A spokesman from the U.S. Council of Standards and Measures talks about the advantages of switching over to metric time. A divorce lawyer gets rough with his client while trying to make her claims sound believable. Boz Scaggs performs "Low Down" and "What Can I Say?" Written by Jean-Marc Rocher See less
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Updated Sep 25, 1976

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Sep 25, 1976 (United States)

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21 cast members
Name Known for
Norman Lear
Self - Host / Charles W. Robinson / Various Self - Host / Charles W. Robinson / Various   See fewer
Boz Scaggs
Self - Musical Guest Self - Musical Guest   See fewer
Dan Aykroyd
Various / Ian Smith / Jimmy Carter / Joseph Franklin Various / Ian Smith / Jimmy Carter / Joseph Franklin   See fewer
John Belushi
Various / Henry Kissinger Various / Henry Kissinger   See fewer
Chevy Chase
Self (voice) Self (voice)   See fewer
Jane Curtin
Weekend Update Anchor / Various Weekend Update Anchor / Various   See fewer
Garrett Morris
Various / Joshua Nkomo Various / Joshua Nkomo   See fewer
Laraine Newman
Various Various   See fewer
Gilda Radner
Wife / Mrs. Kaufman Wife / Mrs. Kaufman   See fewer
Don Pardo
Self - Announcer (voice) Self - Announcer (voice)   See fewer
Bea Arthur
Self (uncredited) Self (uncredited)   See fewer
Richard Crenna
Self (uncredited) Self (uncredited)   See fewer
Sherman Hemsley
Self (uncredited) Self (uncredited)   See fewer
Eric Idle
Self (uncredited) Self (uncredited)   See fewer
Kate Lear
Self (uncredited) Self (uncredited)   See fewer
Carroll O'Connor
Self (uncredited) Self (uncredited)   See fewer
Bernadette Peters
Self (uncredited) Self (uncredited)   See fewer
Isabel Sanford
Self (uncredited) Self (uncredited)   See fewer
Tom Schiller
Writer #456 (uncredited) Writer #456 (uncredited)   See fewer
Jean Stapleton
Self (uncredited) Self (uncredited)   See fewer
Nancy Walker
Self (uncredited) Self (uncredited)   See fewer
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