Saturday Night Dive: An SNL Podcast

Live from the Oculus - it's Saturday Night Dive! Join the Zachs as they tackle everything from an episode with three-time host Buck Henry and an extended performance from musical guest The Band, as well as being the final episode for Chevy Chase as a Not Ready for Primetime Player  and  the cut heard 'round the world. This episode truly has it all: fashion statement bandages, the First Lady (of te...

Live from Plato's Cave - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs tackle everything from an episode that features the very first appearance of legend Steve Martin on the show with musical guest Kinky Friedman. This episode has it all - baseball coach lynchings, sucking a stool into your lungs, milk, legal baby killings, Drano murders and a fake Inuit named Blog. Take the dive! Email us your c...

Live from a Peppercorn Airlines flight - it's Saturday Night Dive! Join the Zachs as they tackle everything from an episode of season 2 hosted by actress Karen Black with musical guest John Prine, everything from the most recent SNL celebrating Bowen Yang's legacy on the show and even a festive gift exchange between Zachs. This episode has it all: breastfeeding, presidential Name That Tune, cancer...

RIP Rob Reiner (1947-2025) Live from the art fair in the gymnasium at Rose Cage High School in Summit - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs tackle a season two episode hosted by Monty Python legend Eric Idle with musical guests Joe Cocker and Stuff. This episode has it all: Stuff, Richard Belzer, genetic counseling, statue circumcisions, headache injections, Nazis, dueling Cockers and dr...

Live from the set of  Maude - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs tackle an episode hosted by a television legend with a musical guest Zach Hall spoke to over the phone once. Of course, this episode has it all: Jean Stapleton, dress shirt collars that just won't quit, Pittsburgh snake handlers, Eric Idle reading a newspaper, Speedy Alka-Seltzer, mwendesday, pies in the face and Henry Kis...

Live from the Holiday Inn (the big room, not the coffee shop) - it's Saturday Night Dive! Join the Zachs as they dive into the season two premiere, which sees the return of Lily Tomlin as host and the debut of James Taylor as musical guest. This episode has it all: Foreign Legionnaires Disease, rotary phones, Muppet morgues, the New Mall, hampster head grocery shopping, Taylor Mead and the Antler...

Live from the Circle2 Lounge at Disc Golf Mart Indianapolis - it's Saturday Night Dive! The Zachs are taking one last deep dive into season 1 of Saturday Night Live before kicking off the next one. This episode has it all: giving out thumbs, 23.3% neutrality, men impersonating Carly Simon and that thing where '50s Lily Tomlin yells "hey, Frankie". Don't miss this dive! Email us your corrections an...

Live from the Kentucky coal mine to the California sun - it's Saturday Night Dive! The Zachs are recapping the first season finale of Saturday Night Live. That's right, one down fifty to go (so far)! This episode has everything: Herb Sargent's spanking fetish, Futaba's lubed-up finger, hula-hoops, the Great White Athlete, hors d'oeuvres, police brutality, Larry Farber, and hunky gynecologists. Tak...

Live from John Belushi Wardrobe, Rock Center, New York, New York - it's Saturday Night Dive! Join the Zachs as they go insane diving into SNL's most awkward outing yet - anchored by an unsettling host performance from  Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman 's Louise Lasser. NO - Louise didn't actually hide in her dressing room to avoid being on camera. YES - this is the most uncomfortable and unsettling epis...

Live from a felt factory in Yorkshire - it's Saturday Night Dive! The Zachs are back to talk an exciting week in modern SNL and another classic episode of season one. Elliott Gould's second hosting gig has it all: pervert Chevy Chase, zip codes, blowjob implications, that thing where it's an episode of Star Trek but Herb Goodman orders the set to be torn down before the Captain's Log, nipples, whi...

Live from Dell Stator's Toad Ranch - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week, the Zachs cover an episode of SNL that has it all: Emmy winners, risk of penis harm, dead mangled puppies, Ronald Reagan's eyebrow peel, crowd lynchings, toilet seat shopping, sexologists, a Schubert craze and Tony Orlando & Dawn. Don't miss this latest dive! Email us your corrections and SNL Icebreakers to saturdaynight...

Live from the Balkan Playland - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week, join the Zachs as they steep deep into their favorite stars' bathwater and tackle everything from Dyan Cannon's week hosting NBC's Saturday Night. From toothpaste for dead kids to weird vibes from the married musical guests, this episode has it all! Email us your corrections and SNL Icebreakers to saturdaynightdivepod@gmail.com....

Live from San Clemente - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs are back in the Circle 2 Lounge to tackle an episode of season one hosted by comedy classics actress Madeline Kahn with an odd pre-taped musical performance by the elusive Carly Simon. From the opening  Wilderness Comedian  sketch to the dynamite impressions performed by Madeline Kahn and Gilda Radner, this episode has it all!...

Live from U.S. Council of Standards and Measures - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs tackle '70s sex icon Raquel Welch's hosting stint on SNL along with our first returning musical guest, Phoebe Snow, and the guy who did the  Welcome Back, Kotter  theme song for some reason. Belushi's Cocker is back, Chevy gets to the fall for once, America adopts the metric system of measurement, Clau...

Live from an oval office - it's Saturday Night Dive! The Zachs dive into an episode that is still surprisingly fascinating today. From Republicans and Democrats shaking hands to the visceral Patti Smith Group and being jammed with great sketches - this is an early one not to miss! Email us your corrections and SNL Icebreakers to saturdaynightdivepod@gmail.com. Subscribe to the show on YouTube and...

Live from Not Australia, you think it'd be Australia but it's not, look pal - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs tackle Psycho star Anthony Perkins' and jazz singer Betty Carter's first and only time appearing on the show. The Dive covers it all: Chevy padding for time, Perkins' creepiness, showtune therapy, rogue Muppets, brown weed, Kierkegaard reports and much, much more. Email us yo...

Live from the White Guilt Relief Fund - it's Saturday Night Dive! Join the Zachs as a middling season one episode has them losing their minds. Not even a heaping handful of Car Yummies or a few expertly performed "chick chicks" here can keep our two Zachs from going mad. Email us your corrections and SNL Icebreakers to saturdaynightdivepod@gmail.com. Subscribe to the show on YouTube and comment yo...

Live from the Tropicana Club - it's Saturday Night Dive! Join the Zachs as they dive into an episode hosted by the man who practically invented comedy television as we know it today. Desi hosts the show with the help of his son, Desi Arnaz Jr. both in sketches and in his musical performances. Gilda takes the task of stepping into the iconic shoes of Lucy Ricardo, as she and Desi babalu through Stu...

Live from the second floor of the Blaine Hotel - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week in 1976, Valentine's Day and Saturday Night Live day were one and the same. Join the Zachs as they tackle Young Frankenstein's take on a lovers romp in an episode that holds flimsy orgy excuses, solicited kisses from children, intense scatting and the most iconic wrestling match of all time. Email us your correcti...

Live from the Apple Follies Silent Theatre - it's Saturday Night Dive! Join the Zachs as they dive into an episode light on great sketches but heavy on a host with lots of daytime talk show rizz. Also, the Zachs tackle everything going on in the SNL casting news over the last week - and more! Email us your corrections and SNL Icebreakers to saturdaynightdivepod@gmail.com. Subscribe to the show on...

Live from the Frog & Peach - it's Saturday Night Dive! Cook & Moore bring a huge dose of British sensibilities to the first-ever double host episode of the show and the Zachs are here for all of it. Pair your holiday in an elevator this year with listening to the soothing sounds of everyone's favorite midwest SNL rewatch. Email us your corrections and SNL Icebreakers to saturdaynightdivepo...

Live from Breakwind Junior College on the Florida Keys - it's Saturday Night Dive! Join the Zachs as they cover the first of many appearances of actor/writer Buck Henry as host. These podcasters have no idea who he is and the show seems to be aware of it. Grab your roast beef on rye with mustard and join the Zachs as they cover another SNL classic. Email us your corrections and SNL Icebreakers to...

Live from a 1976 screening of  Airport '75  - it's Saturday Night Dive! This week the Zachs cover The Dead String Orchestra, Gilda and Elliott's love affair and some live sketches that just go on and on. This is the dawn of SNL's second calendar year, so lets dive in! Follow the show on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @satnightdivepod Email us your corrections and SNL Icebreakers to saturdaynightd...

Live from the high angle of the Bee Capades - it's Saturday Night Dive! Join the Zachs as they get into the midsummer holiday spirit and tackle SNL's very first Christmas special. This one's for you, blatant elves. Follow the show on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @satnightdivepod Email us your corrections and SNL Icebreakers to saturdaynightdivepod@gmail.com. Subscribe to the show on YouTube and...

Live from, hey, what's the word? Johannesburg! It's Saturday Night Dive. Join the Zachs as they tiptoe through Richard Pryor's attempt to bring a little 1975 racial commentary to the show. From a rigged line-up to a major Chevy Chase bomb drop, we're digging into all of it! Follow the show on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @satnightdivepod Email us your corrections and SNL Icebreakers to saturday...