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:

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

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Taglines:

It's "NBC's Saturday Night"! (used until 19 March 1977)

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Genres:

Comedy | Music

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Certificate:

TV-14

Did You Know?

Trivia

Musical Director Lenny Pickett has been the tenor sax soloist on the opening theme since the beginning of the 1985-1986 season. During that time, he has never missed one episode. His fellow Musical Director, Leon Pendarvis, has been in the house band since the 1980-1981 season, and may be the musician with the longest tenure in a television show band.

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Goofs

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

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Quotes

["Weekend Update" closing line]
Dennis Miller: That's the news, and I am OUTTA HERE.

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Alternate Versions

In the United Kingdom the early 1990s, to tie-in with the release of the big-screen Wayne's World movie, various Wayne's World segments of Saturday Night Live, were packaged into a series of 10 minute shows, broadcast on Wednesday evenings at 6:50p.m. on BBC2. As Saturday Night has never been shown on terrestrial UK TV, the film and these short episodes were the first time most UK audiences had seen Wayne and Garth.

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Connections

Referenced in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Seth Rogen/Fred Armisen/Corinne Bailey Rae (2016)

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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