The Land of Gorch is a recurring skit in season one of Saturday Night Live. This segment featured Jim Henson's Muppets. Saturday Night Live's executive producer Lorne Michaels described the characters as the type of Muppets that can stay up late.

The Land of Gorch is a swampy alien wasteland that is ruled by the oafish King Ploobis and has different misadventures with his wife Queen Peuta, his right-hand man Scred, his servant Vazh, his son Wisss, and The Mighty Favog.

The intro that is narrated by Don Pardo states "Come with us now from the bubbling tarpits, to the sulfurous wasteland. From the rotting forest, to the stagnant mud flats, to the Land of Gorch.

The following episodes are listed by the episode with the guest host:

The Land may refer to:

Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin (born September 1, 1939) is an American actress, comedian, writer, and producer. Tomlin has been a major force in American comedy since the late 1960s when she began a career as a stand up comedian and became a featured performer on television's Laugh-in. Her career has spanned television, comedy recordings, Broadway, and motion pictures, enjoying acclaimed success in each medium. She has won many awards including Tony Awards, Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award and has also been nominated for an Academy Award. Tomlin's humor is often sharp and insightful in the traditions of standup comedians, but also frequently endearing, slightly wacky, and generally quite "family friendly" in the tradition of television comediennes such as Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, and Eve Arden.

Tomlin was born in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Lillie Mae (née Ford), a housewife and nurse's aide, and Guy Tomlin, a factory worker. Tomlin's parents were Southern Baptists who moved to Detroit from Paducah, Kentucky, during the Great Depression. She is a 1957 graduate of Cass Technical High School. Tomlin attended Wayne State University, where her interest in the theater and performing arts began. After college, Tomlin began doing stand-up comedy in nightclubs in Detroit and later in New York City. Her first television appearance was on The Merv Griffin Show in 1965.