Buck Henry and Jane Curtin were supposed to cover The Bacchus Parade. But a drunken partygoer was run over and killed by a float causing the parade to come to a halt.
Randy Newman was only supposed to play three songs but because of the ruckus outside he was asked to play another.
Garrett Morris, a native of New Orleans, invited the entire cast and crew to have an elaborate dinner at his Aunt's house. He was quite disappointed when he was not allowed to sing a song he composed titled "Walkind Down Bourbon Street" on the show.
In his autobiography "39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss", Tom Davis recounts that the "Annual Hit Al Hirt in the Mouth with a Brick contest" was written by Michael O'Donoghue and based on an actual event in the late sixties when Al Hirt was hit by a brick while on a Mardi Gras float. Davis was one of the people throwing Styrofoam bricks at John Belushi, pretending to be Al Hirt.
Writer Alan Zweibel was hidden under the desk as Buck Henry and Jane Curtin did their live coverage of the parade that wouldn't come, frantically writing new jokes for them to say.