When Saturday Night Live debuted in October 1975, New York City was in such a state of severe disrepair that the cover of the New York Daily Newsone day that month read “Ford To City: Drop Dead.” “It was just after Watergate and Saigon,” says producer Lorne Michaels. “It was …
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