The show has been marketed in other ways, including home media releases of “best of” and whole seasons, and books and documentaries about behind-the-scenes activities of running and developing the show. Successful sketches have seen life outside the show as feature films including The Blues Brothers (1980) and Wayne’s World (1992). The show format has been developed and recreated in several countries, meeting with different levels of success. Others associated with the show, such as writers, have gone on to successful careers creating, writing, and starring in television and film.īroadcast from Studio 8H at NBC’s headquarters in the Comcast Building at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, SNL has aired 886 episodes since its debut, and began its forty-fifth season on September 28, 2019, making it one of the longest-running network television programs in the United States. Many SNL cast members have found national stardom while appearing on the show, and achieved success in film and television, both in front of and behind the camera. Since Michaels’ return, he has held the job of show-runner. He was replaced by Jean Doumanian, who was replaced by Ebersol after a season of bad reviews. In 1980, Michaels left the series to explore other opportunities. An episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, “ Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!“, properly beginning the show.
Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers the opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast as with featured performances by a musical guest. The show’s comedy sketches, which often parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title NBC’s Saturday Night. Saturday Night Live (also known as SNL) is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol.
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