Recounting the 90 minutes before the first 'Saturday Night Live' broadcast in 1975, 'Saturday Night' premiered Friday on the ...

"It was such an honor that I did not want to mess this up, and I didn't want to mess my career up," the actor tells PEOPLE ...

"I wanted to speak to him," Smith said of Chase. But director Jason Reitman questioned, "What do you want to get out of that?

When an arrogant, aging, iconic comedian of yesteryear met an overly confident, young up-and-coming comic beginning to make ...

Sonia Recchia/Getty; Silver Screen Collection/Getty Cory Michael Smith intensely studied Chevy Chase before starring in Saturday Night. The actor, 37, tells PEOPLE about how focused he was on ...

Cory Michael Smith intensely studied Chevy Chase before starring in Saturday Night. The actor, 37, tells PEOPLE about how focused he was on nailing his portrayal of Chase, now 81, for the upcoming ...

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Chevy Chase was the breakout star of Saturday Night Live's first season in 1975, so it's only fitting that the actor playing him, Cory Michael Smith, delivers one of the most memorable ...