-Rather than a rotating guest host, SNL originally planned on one set host. Actor Treat Williams was chosen to fill this role, but the idea was rejected at the last minute when producers realized he was much more action-y than fun-y.

-Aaron Neville was asked to perform a record six times during the 1990 season, each time performing for both his first and second song the smash hit "Bird on the Wire" from the critically acclaimed film Bird on a Wire.

-Dan Akroyd invented the musical genre often referred to as "blues".

-Despite their best efforts, SNL has not been funny since February of 1976.

-The repeal of prohibition was a direct result of psychics predicting Jimmy Fallon’s numerous performances on SNL some seventy years later.

-The film Mercury Rising was originally a seven minute skit that was supposed to air on a March, 1996 episode. One of the writers joked with Lorne Michaels that the masses were so stupid that the skit could probably be turned into a 90-minute Hollywood "blockbuster".

-The word imbibed was not a part of the Enlish Language before SNL, although that has nothing to do with SNL per se.

-Horatio Sanz isn’t actually a real person. He is a digitally created image added during production.

-The top three hosts (in regards to the number of times they hosted) are; John Goodman, 12 times, Alec Baldwin, 12 times and Steve Martin, 8 billion times.