The Not Ready for Prime Time Project

01/04/2026

The Not Ready for Prime Time Project brings 2025 to a close!

Last Week:
🎙️ The Early Years of SNL – S5 E12
(Host: Kirk Douglas | Musical Guest: Sam & Dave)

🔜 Coming up:
🎙️The Early Years of SNL – S5 E13
(Host: Rodney Dangerfield | Musical Guest: The J. Geils Band)

01/01/2026

1943: Happy Birthday, Don Novello!

writer on Seasons 3-5. Featured Player on S5 (& S11).

Would come back to host TWICE in S9 as Father Guido Sarducci.

Also appeared as Special Guest when Bill Murray hosted in S7 & S18.

A great cameo in S21.

12/31/2025

A HUGE thank you to all of you for helping us make 2025 an AMAZING year for The Not Ready for Prime Time Project!

The Early Years have finished S4 and are making its way through Season Five!

We've had quite a few !

And this past year on My Story we got to talk to:

*Rosie Shuster (original writer, 2x winner
*Marilyn Suzanne Miller (original writer, 3x Emmy winner)
*Mitchell Lawerence (Assoc. Director - original era)
*Gary Kroeger (cast member, S8-10)
*Kevin Kelton (writer S9-10, Emmy nominee)
*Don Roy King (director S32-47, 11x Emmy winner)
*Patrick Weathers (cast member S6)

We'll see you in 2026. Stay tuned!

12/30/2025

We're back with a NEW episode of The Early Years of .

Hollywood icon Kirk Douglas hosts w/ R&B legends Sam & Dave as the musical guests for Season 5 Episode 12 of !

Available NOW wherever you get your .

🎧Apple: https://buff.ly/iWvGF8x
🎧Spotify: https://buff.ly/zYn8s10
📺YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZCeg5JJ8_SE

12/26/2025

From our annual Day-After-Christmas visit to the tree at .

12/24/2025

12/23/2025

One last early present for everyone as we re-release this *Vintage* Tournament Talk - our very first

mans the controls as our panel debates and argues their Favorite Holiday Moments! He also joins the intro to talk about a few sketches that DIDN'T make the final cut.

How did YOUR favorite Holiday moment fare?

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12/21/2025

Another Not Ready For Prime Time week in the books!

Last Week:
🎙️ A "Vintage" The Early Years of SNL – S2 E10
(Host: Candice Bergen | Musical Guest: Frank Zappa)

🎙️Deep Thoughts: Scrooged

🔜 Coming up:
🎙️A "Vintage" holiday NR4PTP

12/19/2025

How rough is Season 5? They STILL can't figure out what camera to look at. Thank god for Jane Curtin.