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Saturday Night Dive: An SNL Podcast

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Two lifelong Saturday Night Live enthusiasts (both named Zach) are taking on the wild and crazy task of taking a deep dive into every episode of the pop culture landmark that is SNL. Each week, the Zachs will cover half a century of sketch comedy classics from the very first “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night” to the most recent “That’s our show, goodnight”. Follow the show on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @satnightdivepodEmail us your corrections and SNL Icebreakers to

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97:06

2x11 - Ralph Nader; George Benson (1/15/77)

Saturday Night Dive: An SNL Podcast ·

2026/02/16

Live from H-E double hockey sticks - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs tackle everything from an episode with host Ralph Nader and musical guest George Benson. This episode has it all: Mr. Goodtimes, calls with grandpa, televised executions, Andy Kaufman as Elvis Presley, lost world domination speeches and Ralph Nader's sex doll collection. Take the dive!Email us your corrections and SNL Icebreakers to saturdaynightdivepod@gmail.com.Subscribe to the show on YouTube and comment your

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99:26

2x10 - Candice Bergen; Frank Zappa (12/11/76)

Saturday Night Dive: An SNL Podcast ·

2026/02/09

Live from Santa's lap - it's Saturday Night Dive! Join the Zachs as they cover everything from an episode with returning host Candice Bergen and musical guest Frank Zappa. This episode has it all: Belushi's Bogart, sanitary holiday practices, Don Pardo as The Slime, the Bag'O toy line, Fern's identity crisis, tickles from Tom Schiller, processed cheese slices, multiple tree branch stabbings and Peaches En Regalia. Take the dive!Email us your corrections and SNL Icebreakers to

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121:10

2x09 - Jodie Foster; Brian Wilson (11/27/76)

Saturday Night Dive: An SNL Podcast ·

2026/02/02

Live from Loss Leader, New Jersey - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs tackle everything from an episode with youngest-yet host Jodie Foster and musical guest Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. This episode has it all: milk served in a Flintstones glass, feedbag dinners, television actor bees, sacks to hide your puberty in, Steve Bushakis, possessed chickens, invisible Don Pardos and interracial couples based on lies about race. Take the dive!Email us your corrections and SNL Icebreakers to

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112:46

2x08 - Paul Simon; George Harrison (11/20/76)

Saturday Night Dive: An SNL Podcast ·

2026/01/26

Live from Crackerbox Palace - it's Saturday Night Dive! Join the Zachs as they cover everything from an episode with host Paul Simon paired up with musical guest and ex-Beatle George Harrison. This episode has it all: a cereal that's just rocks, less than 50 ways to leave your lover, a deli that welcomes Nazis, George Harrison's future wife Eric Clapton's wife, neapolitan ice cream, Neil Simon and apologies to Mr. Mike. Take the dive!Email us your corrections and SNL Icebreakers to

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97:43

2x07 - Dick Cavett; Ry Cooder (11/13/76)

Saturday Night Dive: An SNL Podcast ·

2026/01/19

Live from the Paramount Novelty Store - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs tackle everything from an episode of season two with host Dick Cavett (filling in for Elliott Gould) and musical guest Ry Cooder. This episode has it all: Puppy Uppers, Richard Nixon singing High Hopes, Ry Cooder, Gene Shalit the Bear, gay Marines, priest slaps, pressure groups, laugh bags, Bee racism and female mammary glands. Take the dive!Email us your corrections and SNL Icebreakers to

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100:02

2x06 - Buck Henry; The Band (10/30/76)

Saturday Night Dive: An SNL Podcast ·

2026/01/12

Live from the Oculus - it's Saturday Night Dive! Join the Zachs as they tackle everything from an episode with three-time host Buck Henry and an extended performance from musical guest The Band, as well as being the final episode for Chevy Chase as a Not Ready for Primetime Player and the cut heard 'round the world. This episode truly has it all: fashion statement bandages, the First Lady (of television), Mr. Georgia, Gerald Ford with a mustache, warlocks, Old Dixie, and the devil's area code. Take

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109:07

2x05 - Steve Martin; Kinky Friedman (10/23/76)

Saturday Night Dive: An SNL Podcast ·

2026/01/05

Live from Plato's Cave - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs tackle everything from an episode that features the very first appearance of legend Steve Martin on the show with musical guest Kinky Friedman. This episode has it all - baseball coach lynchings, sucking a stool into your lungs, milk, legal baby killings, Drano murders and a fake Inuit named Blog. Take the dive!Email us your corrections and SNL Icebreakers to saturdaynightdivepod@gmail.com.Subscribe to the show on YouTube and

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96:29

2x04 - Karen Black; John Prine (10/16/76)

Saturday Night Dive: An SNL Podcast ·

2025/12/29

Live from a Peppercorn Airlines flight - it's Saturday Night Dive! Join the Zachs as they tackle everything from an episode of season 2 hosted by actress Karen Black with musical guest John Prine, everything from the most recent SNL celebrating Bowen Yang's legacy on the show and even a festive gift exchange between Zachs. This episode has it all: breastfeeding, presidential Name That Tune, cancer-free cupcakes, the A*M*I*S*H, romance between a queen and her horse, underwear that's meant to be seen,

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112:53

2x03 - Eric Idle; Joe Cocker & Stuff (10/2/76)

Saturday Night Dive: An SNL Podcast ·

2025/12/22

RIP Rob Reiner (1947-2025)Live from the art fair in the gymnasium at Rose Cage High School in Summit - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs tackle a season two episode hosted by Monty Python legend Eric Idle with musical guests Joe Cocker and Stuff. This episode has it all: Stuff, Richard Belzer, genetic counseling, statue circumcisions, headache injections, Nazis, dueling Cockers and drag queens drag racing. Take the dive!Email us your corrections and SNL Icebreakers to

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93:23

2x02 - Norman Lear; Boz Scaggs (9/25/76)

Saturday Night Dive: An SNL Podcast ·

2025/12/15

Live from the set of Maude - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs tackle an episode hosted by a television legend with a musical guest Zach Hall spoke to over the phone once. Of course, this episode has it all: Jean Stapleton, dress shirt collars that just won't quit, Pittsburgh snake handlers, Eric Idle reading a newspaper, Speedy Alka-Seltzer, mwendesday, pies in the face and Henry Kissinger. Take the dive!Email us your corrections and SNL Icebreakers to

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89:06

2x01 - Lily Tomlin; James Taylor (9/18/76)

Saturday Night Dive: An SNL Podcast ·

2025/12/08

Live from the Holiday Inn (the big room, not the coffee shop) - it's Saturday Night Dive! Join the Zachs as they dive into the season two premiere, which sees the return of Lily Tomlin as host and the debut of James Taylor as musical guest. This episode has it all: Foreign Legionnaires Disease, rotary phones, Muppet morgues, the New Mall, hampster head grocery shopping, Taylor Mead and the Antler Dance. Dive in!Email us your corrections and SNL Icebreakers to saturdaynightdivepod@gmail.com.Subscribe

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70:53

Season One Roundtable

Saturday Night Dive: An SNL Podcast ·

2025/12/01

Live from the Circle2 Lounge at Disc Golf Mart Indianapolis - it's Saturday Night Dive! The Zachs are taking one last deep dive into season 1 of Saturday Night Live before kicking off the next one. This episode has it all: giving out thumbs, 23.3% neutrality, men impersonating Carly Simon and that thing where '50s Lily Tomlin yells "hey, Frankie". Don't miss this dive!Email us your corrections and SNL Icebreakers to saturdaynightdivepod@gmail.com.Subscribe to the show on YouTube and comment your

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123:12

1x24- Kris Kristofferson; Rita Coolidge (7/31/76)

Saturday Night Dive: An SNL Podcast ·

2025/11/23

Live from the Kentucky coal mine to the California sun - it's Saturday Night Dive! The Zachs are recapping the first season finale of Saturday Night Live. That's right, one down fifty to go (so far)! This episode has everything: Herb Sargent's spanking fetish, Futaba's lubed-up finger, hula-hoops, the Great White Athlete, hors d'oeuvres, police brutality, Larry Farber, and hunky gynecologists. Take the dive!Email us your corrections and SNL Icebreakers to saturdaynightdivepod@gmail.com.Subscribe to

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101:16

1x23 - Louise Lasser; The Preservation Hall Jazz Band...

Saturday Night Dive: An SNL Podcast ·

2025/11/17

Live from John Belushi Wardrobe, Rock Center, New York, New York - it's Saturday Night Dive! Join the Zachs as they go insane diving into SNL's most awkward outing yet - anchored by an unsettling host performance from Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman's Louise Lasser. NO - Louise didn't actually hide in her dressing room to avoid being on camera. YES - this is the most uncomfortable and unsettling episode the Dive has covered yet.Email us your corrections and SNL Icebreakers to

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105:02

1x22 - Elliott Gould; Leon Redbone, Harlan Collins...

Saturday Night Dive: An SNL Podcast ·

2025/11/10

Live from a felt factory in Yorkshire - it's Saturday Night Dive! The Zachs are back to talk an exciting week in modern SNL and another classic episode of season one. Elliott Gould's second hosting gig has it all: pervert Chevy Chase, zip codes, blowjob implications, that thing where it's an episode of Star Trek but Herb Goodman orders the set to be torn down before the Captain's Log, nipples, white Shirley Temple Black, and children covering Al Jolson songs.Email us your corrections and SNL

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100:34

1x21 - Buck Henry; Gordon Lightfoot (5/22/76)

Saturday Night Dive: An SNL Podcast ·

2025/11/03

Live from Dell Stator's Toad Ranch - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week, the Zachs cover an episode of SNL that has it all: Emmy winners, risk of penis harm, dead mangled puppies, Ronald Reagan's eyebrow peel, crowd lynchings, toilet seat shopping, sexologists, a Schubert craze and Tony Orlando & Dawn. Don't miss this latest dive!Email us your corrections and SNL Icebreakers to saturdaynightdivepod@gmail.com.Subscribe to the show on YouTube and comment your thoughts on the latest episode.Like

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99:11

1x20 - Dyan Cannon; Leon & Mary Russell (5/15/76)

Saturday Night Dive: An SNL Podcast ·

2025/10/27

Live from the Balkan Playland - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week, join the Zachs as they steep deep into their favorite stars' bathwater and tackle everything from Dyan Cannon's week hosting NBC's Saturday Night. From toothpaste for dead kids to weird vibes from the married musical guests, this episode has it all!Email us your corrections and SNL Icebreakers to saturdaynightdivepod@gmail.com.Subscribe to the show on YouTube and comment your thoughts on the latest episode.Like the show? Leave us a

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85:24

1x19 - Madeline Kahn; Carly Simon, Howard Shore and...

Saturday Night Dive: An SNL Podcast ·

2025/10/20

Live from San Clemente - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs are back in the Circle 2 Lounge to tackle an episode of season one hosted by comedy classics actress Madeline Kahn with an odd pre-taped musical performance by the elusive Carly Simon. From the opening Wilderness Comedian sketch to the dynamite impressions performed by Madeline Kahn and Gilda Radner, this episode has it all!Email us your corrections and SNL Icebreakers to saturdaynightdivepod@gmail.com.Subscribe to the show on

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102:26

1x18 - Raquel Welch; Phoebe Snow, John Sebastian...

Saturday Night Dive: An SNL Podcast ·

2025/10/13

Live from U.S. Council of Standards and Measures - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs tackle '70s sex icon Raquel Welch's hosting stint on SNL along with our first returning musical guest, Phoebe Snow, and the guy who did the Welcome Back, Kotter theme song for some reason. Belushi's Cocker is back, Chevy gets to the fall for once, America adopts the metric system of measurement, Claudine Longet cleans her gun and more in 102 action packed bisexual minutes of podcasting gold.Email us your

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116:19

1x17 - Ron Nessen; Patti Smith Group (4/17/76)

Saturday Night Dive: An SNL Podcast ·

2025/10/06

Live from an oval office - it's Saturday Night Dive! The Zachs dive into an episode that is still surprisingly fascinating today. From Republicans and Democrats shaking hands to the visceral Patti Smith Group and being jammed with great sketches - this is an early one not to miss!Email us your corrections and SNL Icebreakers to saturdaynightdivepod@gmail.com.Subscribe to the show on YouTube and comment your thoughts on the latest episode.Like the show? Leave us a review on your favorite

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