Claim: Will Ferrell distinguished himself as an actor of an NBC show.
Evidence: He received an Emmy Award nomination for his work on Saturday Night Live , and two Golden Globe Award nominations for The Producers -LRB- 2005 -RRB- and Stranger than Fiction -LRB- 2006 -RRB-.
The show premiered on NBC on October 11 , 1975 , under the original title NBC 's Saturday Night.