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As a tribute to the recently deceased comedian George Carlin, Saturday Night Live will be rerunning their very first episode, which was hosted by Carlin in 1975 under its original name, NBC Saturday Night. ("Saturday Night Live" was the name of a Howard Cosell show at the time). Carlin does three stand-up routines on the show, there are five parody ads, Chevy Chase hosts Weekend Update, the Muppets do a sketch, and Andy Kaufman lip-synchs to the "Mighty Mouse" theme song. It's going to tough crawling back to Andy Samberg after this one. [Tonight, HBO will air two Carlin specials, 1977's "George Carlin at USC" and 1978's "George Carlin Again!" starting at 8 p.m.]

In case you missed it, Jerry Seinfeld eulogized the recently-deceased comedian George Carlin in a Times Op-Ed today: "He worked over an idea like a diamond cutter with facets and angles and refractions of light. He made you sorry you ever thought you wanted to be a comedian. He was like a train hobo with a chicken bone. When he was done there was nothing left for anybody."

George Carlin, a native of Morningside Heights, died of heart failure yesterday in California. He was 71. The iconoclastic comedian was famously arrested (pictured) after doing his “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television” routine during a 1972 performance in Milwaukee (you can see video of a 1978 performance after the jump). When the words were later aired on WBAI, the ensuing lawsuit went all the way to the Supreme Court, who ruled in 1978 that the government could sanction broadcasters for offensive language. The counterculture comedian told the AP earlier this year: “So my name is a footnote in American legal history, which I'm perversely kind of proud of.”

Quest for the Lost Ark (Sunday, 8:00 p.m., History Channel) Tudor Parfitt looks more like Jeremy Clarkson than Harrison Ford, but he is a real life Indiana Jones. This History Channel documentary special traces his search for the Ark of the Covenant – the same thing the fictional Indy searched for in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Cardinal Hayes High School, says the allegations are “absolutely, positively 100% false." Officials have confirmed that Keogan’s hard drive was storing pictures of nude men and that since there were no minors depicted, Keogan does not face any criminal charges, though of course his career is destroyed.

Dana Gould wrote for seven years for The Simpsons, starred in the NBC sitcom Working opposite Fred Savage, and has performed stand up on HBO, Showtime, and Comedy Central. He is considered, by many, to be the originator of the alternative comedy movement and is, without a doubt, one of the strongest comedic talents working today. Here he is, for the first time in NYC in seven years, Mr. Dana Gould!

And in other substance abuse news, George Carlin is checking himself into drug rehab for wine and vicodin abuse.