[Ads-l] (not) ready for prime time

[Jesse Sheidlower]

The first episode of Saturday Night Live, on 11 October 1975, credited the cast onscreen as "The Not for Ready Prime-Time Players!".

It doesn't look like there's a (free) clip of this online, but there's a full transcript here:

https://snl.fandom.com/wiki/October_11,_1975/Transcript

Jesse Sheidlower

On Thu, Jul 03, 2025 at 12:32:17PM -0400, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> OED: 1977
> 
> 1976 _Los Angeles Herald-Examiner_ (Apr. 24) A-3 [GenealogyBank]: READY FOR
> PRIME TIME Super Marathoners...warm up...prior to cross-country run.
> 
> 1976 _Columbus [O.] Dispatch_ (Sept. 19) D-9 [GenealogyBank]: NOT READY FOR
> PRIME TIME...One citizen in the audience...urged the council to ask for a
> portable color television camera for a community access channel. But
> Council Chairman John Coleman was unimpressed.
> 
> JL
> 
> -- 
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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