A Queer History of SNL, Part Three (Patreon)

Hi all. Here are the sketches we will be discussing for the third installment of our queer SNL retrospective. All of these are sketches that ran in the first five seasons of the show, which is to say the “Not Ready for Primetime” era that kicked off the series starting in 1975. We’re not covering every sketch that touches on LGBTQ subjects, but instead just doing the ones that seemed relevant to the history of the show or are ether very good or very bad. See if you can spot the bad ones!

Fair warning: Some of these will probably offend you. 

Here are the sketches, in order:

1. Jamitol (S1E1: George Carlin, Oct. 11 1975)
2. Long Distance (S1E4: Candice Bergen, Nov. 8 1975)
3. Latent Elf (S1E8: Candice Bergen, Dec. 20 1975)
4. Household Hints (S1E16: Anthony Perkins, March 13, 1976)
5. The Snake-Handling O’Sheas (S2E2: Norman Lear, Sep. 25, 1976)
6. Monologue (S4E11: Cicely Tyson, Feb. 10, 1979)
7. The Ex-Police (S4E11: Cicely Tyson, Feb. 10, 1979)
8. Miles Cowperthwaite (S4E18: Michael Palin, May 12, 1979)
9. Not for Transexuals Only (S4E20: Buck Henry, May 26, 1979)
10. The Continuing Correspondences of Eleanor Roosevelt (S5E3: Bill Russell, Oct. 20 1979)