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SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE - Tess

Air Date/Released Saturday, September 18, 1976
Station/Studio NBC / NBC Productions
Host/Star Lily Tomlin

Revolutionary sketch comedy/music program, featuring the original roster of Not-Ready-For-PrimeTime-Players. The initial 1970s seasons launched pop culture characters, phrases, celebrity status and movie franchises.

In a sketch featuring Lily's character Tess DiSenzo, a chainsmoking recluse living in her lonely fantasy world, real estate salesman Rob Hopkins (Garrett Morris) replies to her request for a sales pitch on a new condominium development. Unfortunately he's subjected to her nonsensical ramblings about absent family, smoking and sales on Nativity scenes. The sketch opens with Tess watching GENTS IN A JAM (1952) on television, and closes with the Stooges' theme as she begins watching another short.


Cast: Lily Tomlin (Host, Tess DiSenzo), Garrett Morris (Rob Hopkins), John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman, Gilda Radner, Chevy Chase, Don Pardo, Lorne Michaels, Michael O'Donoghue

Crew: Dave Wilson (Director), Lorne Michaels (Producer), Lily Tomlin, Anne Beats, Chevy Chase, Al Franken, Tom Davis, Bruce McCall, Marilyn Suzanne Miller, Michael O'Donoghue, Herb Sargent, Tom Schiller, Rosie Shuster, Alan Zweibel (Writers)
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