Another story that was based on a true story, but changed for the movie, was the presence of Golden Age TV star Milton Berle (played by J.K. Simmons) on the set of the show’s premiere.

SATURDAY NIGHT (15) 109 mins ★★★★☆ ONCE you’ve seen the first ever Saturday Night Live sketch you’ll wonder how the show ...

The stars of Saturday Night from left to right: Kim Matula, as Jane Curtain, Emily Fairn, as Laraine Newman, Gabriel La Belle, as Lorne Michaels, Rachel Sennott, as Rosie Shuster, and Matt Wood, as ...

Matthew Rhys as bewildered guest host George Carlin and JK Simmons as veteran TV superstar and inveterate horndog Milton Berle, who makes a huge impression in a mere handful of scenes. The zig-zagging ...

One such example is the inclusion of Milton Berle (played by J.K. Simmons), a TV star from the Golden Age who is shown causing a confrontation on set. The real Berle was not present during the ...

The Netflix movie Saturday Night, directed by Jason Reitman, takes viewers behind the scenes of the first-ever episode of Saturday Night Live. The film, also available on VOD platforms like Amazon ...

Saturday night’s alright for fighting, drugs, LOLZ and on-set madness in Jason Reitman’s stressful account of SNL’s debut.

Belushi is nowhere to be found and Kaufman wanders around and Henson needs his script pages and Milton Berle (J.K. Simmons) shows up to quite literally whip his dick out and Lorne and Saturday ...

In a recent conversation with ComicBook, we asked Simmons about what it was like to work with NetherRealm Studios on Mortal Kombat 1 and play Omni-Man outside of Invincible. Simmons praised the ...