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The long-running American late-night sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL) first premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, and its fiftieth and most recent season premiered on September 28, 2024. Created by Lorne Michaels , who is the original and current showrunner, its history has been shaped by its large and constantly-changing cast of ...
Saturday Night Live: The First Twenty Years, by Michael Cader, was released in 1994 and presented information about the cast, characters, and other memorable moments seen on the show from 1975 to 1994. [275] [276] Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, as Told By Its Stars, Writers and Guests was released
In 1974, NBC Tonight Show host Johnny Carson asked that the weekend broadcasts of "Best of Carson" (officially known as The Weekend Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson) come to an end (The Tonight Show was a 90-minute program at the time), so he could take two weeknights off; NBC would thus air those repeats on those nights rather than feed them to affiliates for broadcast on either Saturdays ...
David Letterman's longtime bandleader, Paul Shaffer, got his start on TV as a member of SNL's house band, playing keyboards from the show's start until 1980. Shaffer regularly popped up in ...
Bill Hader did not return for the "Saturday Night Live" 50th anniversary show. Amanda Edwards/FilmMagic/Getty Bill Hader starred on "SNL" for eight years between 2005 and 2013, and many expected ...
Written by Reitman and Gil Kenan, “Saturday Night” plays up the possibility that the show we now know as “Saturday Night Live” almost never happened, and were it not for the audacious ...
Weekend Update is a Saturday Night Live sketch and satirical news program that comments on and parodies current events. It is the show's longest-running recurring sketch, having been on since the show's first broadcast and been featured in the vast majority of episodes since. It is typically presented in the middle of the show immediately after ...
The 50th season of "SNL" premiered last month. Since the first show in 1975, 165 comedians and actors have been a part of "SNL.". Three new comedians joined for season 50. "Saturday Night Live" is ...