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The original title was used because the Saturday Night Live title was in use by Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell on rival network ABC. After the cancellation of Cosell's show in 1976, NBC purchased the rights to the name and officially changed the show's title to Saturday Night Live at the start of the 1977–1978 season, its third.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Now, 50 years later, the sketch comedy show has gone on to become the most Emmy-decorated television show in history, receiving countless nominations, awards and accolades. And in 2017, those ...
Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a late-night sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. It premiered on the NBC Television network on October 11, 1975, under the title NBC's Saturday Night. The show often satirizes contemporary American popular culture and politics.