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 94 wins & 446 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
The Saturday Night Live Band	...	Themselves 790 episodes, 1976-2020
Don Pardo	...	Self - Announcer / ... 727 episodes, 1975-2014
Lenny Pickett	...	Self - Bandleader / ... 416 episodes, 1985-2018
Darrell Hammond	...	Various / ... 401 episodes, 1995-2020
Kenan Thompson	...	Various / ... 344 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:

20th century | 21st century | 1970s | 2000s | 2010s | 

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Taglines:

Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!

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Genres:

Comedy | Music

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Certificate:

TV-14

Did You Know?

Trivia

In all 15 "Celebrity Jeopardy!" sketches, no contestant has ever rung in with a correct response.

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Goofs

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

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Quotes

Harry Caray: Hey, if you were a hot dog, and you were starving, would you eat yourself?
Colin Quinn: I don't know.
Harry Caray: Don't jerk me around, Norm, it's a simple question. A baby could answer it. If you were a hot dog, and you were starving, would you eat yourself?
Colin Quinn: I guess so.
Harry Caray: Oh, you made a wise choice, my friend.

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Alternate Versions

As of 2019, hour-long reruns from most eras of the show are played most Saturdays during the time of the regular season at 10:00 p.m. on NBC. These versions have one musical performance instead of two, and a few sketches per episode from the original airing are taken out of these broadcasts. Also, approximately half of "Weekend Update" is removed so that an episode can air in one hour. There is a title screen before the cold open that reads "This episode, featuring host [NAME] and musical guest [NAME], originally aired on [MONTH DAY, YEAR], as part of SNL's [number] season.

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Connections

Referenced in Joey Breaker (1993)

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Soundtracks

(closing theme song)
Composed by Howard Shore

User Reviews

An Honest Review

It was good, then it was great, then it was good again and now it stinks.

As of 2018 The edginess is gone. There are no risks in the jokes. They all consist of two things, 1. Trump is bad. and 2. This was a thing, remember it?

Neither of those really work for me. Make fun of Trump all you want, but do it with a punch line. Most of the time they forget the punchline. Simply not liking him is NOT a punchline. You have to exaggerate something, make it satire, mock it in some way. I don't even care if it's a cruel mockery...so long as it doesn't seem like they are just stating an opinion.

Opinions are NOT jokes.

The same thing goes with their "remember this, this was a thing" jokes...

They leave you sitting there waiting for them to say something funny about it. You're with them for a little while, "Yeah I remember it, go on..." then you realize that, no, that was the joke.

That's not a joke, that's just asking me to remember something.

Again, if they had a punch line, if they said something about what they were asking me to remember, then it might be funny...but they don't. The jokes are literally "this was a thing, laugh at it." and that's not funny. It has to be followed up with something.

Like with Trump, an opinion is NOT a joke unless it is followed by something. The same thing with a memory, a memory is NOT a joke in and of itself. They both have to be followed by something

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