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Some of you are going to get hooked on this. Two gents named Jon Schneider and James Stephens have started a YouTube show called Everything You Need To Know About Saturday Night Live — a history of that now-institutional late night program. Every week or so, they put up a new episode of roughly 10-15 minutes summarizing what transpired in one season: Who was in the cast? What were the memorable sketches? What were the firsts? That kind of thing.

The info seems solid and the clips are well-chosen. It's really a very well-done presentation. Here's the first episode covering, of course, Season One…

And here's their coverage of Season Two…

They're currently up to Season Seven and it gets especially interesting in Season Six when the original cast and most of the writers depart and NBC has to rebuild. I'm going to embed them all here, two a day until we catch up…but if you don't want to wait for me, you can find subsequent episodes on this page. I would suggest though going in order. It's a remarkable story about a remarkable show.