Saturday Night Live 

A famous guest host stars in parodies and sketches created by the cast of this witty show.

Creator:

Lorne Michaels

Stars:

The Saturday Night Live Band, Don Pardo, Lenny Pickett

Won 78 Primetime Emmys. Another 100 wins & 463 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
The Saturday Night Live Band	...	Themselves 791 episodes, 1976-2020
Don Pardo	...	Self - Announcer / ... 727 episodes, 1975-2014
Lenny Pickett	...	Self - Bandleader / ... 416 episodes, 1985-2018
Darrell Hammond	...	Various / ... 407 episodes, 1995-2020
Kenan Thompson	...	Various / ... 350 episodes, 2003-2020

Storyline

A late-night comedy show featuring several short skits, parodies of television commercials, a live guest band, and a pop-cultural guest host each week. Many of the SNL players have spun off successful independent comedy and/or movie careers from here.

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Plot Keywords:

parody | late night | three word title | variety show | black comedy | 

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Taglines:

And now, from New York, the most dangerous city in America, it's Saturday Night Live. (seventh season)

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Genres:

Comedy | Music

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Certificate:

TV-14

Did You Know?

Trivia

Jane Lynch called Kirstin Wiig "Little Orphan asshole" during one of the Gilli skits. This is just one of the swears that has been uttered over the years.

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Goofs

...almost everything. Live television is largely exempt from the usual rules of goofs.

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Quotes

Norm Macdonald: [on Julia Roberts and Lyle Lovett's divorce] Julia Roberts said that the turning point in their marriage was when she realized that she was Julia Roberts and that she was married to Lyle Lovett.

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Alternate Versions

In recent years, episodes are often reedited for syndication and rebroadcast, often with skits and/or individual jokes that were taped during dress rehearsal being substituted for segments that either didn't work the first time, or were considered offensive.

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Connections

Referenced in Late Night with Seth Meyers: Taraji P. Henson/Lola Kirke/Bret Baier/Abe Cunningham (2016)

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Soundtracks

(closing theme song)
Composed by Howard Shore

User Reviews

Been a long time since SNL was great

SNL. Used to be an every Saturday night show to watch as a kid with great genre defining talent with both the superb writers and ad lib capable actors who were almost all worthy of having their own shows after.

Started with the likes of Candy, Chase, Murphy, Belushi and kept on being great with Ferrel, Farley, Carvey, Myers ...but soon after the turn of the century I struggle to think of any names and would need the internet to tell me anyone else who was on there other than maybe remembering one of the non-comedian guests who might have had a show and I MIGHT tune in for those segments.

Writing is now more PC and the party-fueled creativity is gone...it now seems too corporate controlled and they can only think of how to make political jokes of republicans..although some likenesses are good and well done...it just gets old and overdone and the show doesn't have the magic it used to. Times have changed I guess and the show is more about having some guest on to help plug whatever movie show they are on or pushing corporate sponsored political ideology.

They would have to loosen the reigns and run things like they used to to usher in new era but the times may be too PC for a show like this to be as successful and culturaly relevant like it used to be. Used to be a 10, now a 3.

Details

Official Sites:

NBC Official Facebook

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

11 October 1975 (USA)

Also Known As:

SNL 25

Filming Locations:

JC Studios, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

NBC Studios, NBC Universal Television, Broadway Video

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Sound Mix:

Mono Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

4:3