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 790 episodes, 1976-2020
Don Pardo	...	Self - Announcer / ... 727 episodes, 1975-2014
Lenny Pickett	...	Self - Bandleader / ... 416 episodes, 1985-2018
Darrell Hammond	...	Various / ... 406 episodes, 1995-2020
Kenan Thompson	...	Various / ... 349 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

The following performers are all alumni of the famed Groundlings Theater in Los Angeles, California: Laraine Newman, Jon Lovitz, Phil Hartman, Jan Hooks, Will Ferrell, Jimmy Fallon, Chris Kattan, Cheri Oteri, Chris Parnell, Julia Sweeney, Will Forte, Maya Rudolph, Kristen Wiig, and Siobhan Fallon Hogan.

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Goofs

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

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Quotes

Amy Poehler: [On Weekend Update] USA Today reports that Britney Spears may once again be pregnant. Britney, Kevin; on behalf of all of the people on earth, stop repopulating! Brad and Angelina, Okay; but Britney and Kevin, please stop; now.

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Alternate Versions

To avoid paying royalties, some syndicated versions remove the musical performances and the mention of the musical guests in the opening credits is also removed.

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Connections

Featured in MsMojo: Top 10 Actors and Shows We Hope Win the Emmy in 2017 (2017)

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Soundtracks

(closing theme song)
Composed by Howard Shore

User Reviews

I loved the old ones

Matt Foley was absolutely amazing. I'm only 15 years old but my parents have shown me old movies from the 80s and 90s. Nowadays SNL is not funny. If you hear people laughing at the skits that are not funny in my opinion, then that means they get offended from jokes and their idea of comedy is not the comedy people had back then.

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