Saturday Night Live · season 1, episode 1 · Saturday, October 11, 1975 Host: George Carlin. Musical guest: Janis Ian & Billy Preston. • Billy Preston performs "Nothing from Nothing" and "Fancy Lady". Janis Ian performs "At Seventeen" and "In the Winter". • 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!" • During the opening credits, announcer Don Pardo misspeaks and calls the Not Ready for Primetime Players "the Not for Ready Primetime Players". • As host, George Carlin performs stand-up, introduced the musical guests and conducted the goodnight segment. Carlin performed three monologues, including "Baseball-Football". According to the book Live from New York, Carlin did not participate in any sketches because he was completely stoned. (According to Laraine Newman, however, during an interview with the Archive of American Television, Carlin was set to appear in a sketch about Alexander the Great's high school reunion but it was cut at the last minute, after dress rehearsal.) • Andy Kaufman appears in a segment consisting of him playing the Mighty Mouse theme on a record player, standing silent during the verses of the song and miming along with the choruses. • 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. • 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. • Paul Simon appears to promote his appearance as host the following week. • Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, Michael O'Donoghue, and Gilda Radner's first episode as cast members • George Coe's only episode as a cast member. • The sketches in this episode are very short with each lasting an average of 2 minutes. Wiki link