Just seems to me that it is unlikely Paul is over the house the night SNL springs their offer to the Beatles. Any one know if this actually happened?
"It's the system, Lara. People will be different after the Revolution."
According to at least one interview of John it actually did happen! If I recall correctly their wives were also present and supposedly the real reason they didn't go through with it had more to do with getting the four of them and their instruments into a car than any other reason. Paul also confirmed the story, so although the film is fictitious, the ending is prety close to the truth.
In fact Lorne Michaels specifically had at least one NBC page stationed at each show with the sole task of letting the Beatles through if they ever did show up in person.
Yes, they were watching SNL together. I googled the date and found
http://www.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/spotlight-0424-2011.aspx
John Lennon discussed the Saturday Night Live episode, as well as his relationship with McCartney, in a September 1980 interview for Playboy:
Paul and I were together watching that show. He was visiting us at our place in the Dakota. We were watching it and almost went down to the studio, just as a gag. We nearly got into a cab, but we were actually too tired [...] That was a period when Paul just kept turning up at our door with a guitar. I would let him in, but finally I said to him, 'Please call before you come over. It's not 1956 and turning up at the door isn't the same anymore. You know, just give me a ring.' He was upset by that, but I didn't mean it badly. I just meant that I was taking care of a baby all day and some guy turns up at the door. . . . But, anyway, back on that night, he and Linda walked in and he and I were just sitting there, watching the show, and we went, 'Ha-ha, wouldn't it be funny if we went down?' but we didn't.
Paul McCartney also remembered the event for an interview: "[John] said, 'We should go down there. We should go down now and just do it.' It was one of those moments where we said, 'Let's not and say we did.' "
Both discussed the incident in interviews: Lennon in the 1980s interviews and Mc Cartney in several more recent quotations. It's pretty much agreed by all the original incident did take place.
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