Janet Reno's Dance Party ("coming to you live, from my basement") was a Saturday Night Live sketch with Will Ferrell as Reno. It aired four times, and the last time the sketch aired, the real Janet Reno showed up to dance. (The press noticed afterwards how good a sport she was.) Saturday Night Live musical sketches - Will Ferrell on Janet Reno. "It was all her idea to come on the show, and I was impressed with her. She talked about how important humor is to our political process. She said that when ...

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The Céline Dion Show was faux talk/variety show in which Ana Gasteyer played the Grammy award-winning singer, who in the opening credits, claimed to be the most beautiful and most loved singer in the world. The sketch was inspired by Dion's success in the wake of her number one Billboard Hot 100 hit "My Heart Will Go On" in 1998 But in this case (the show, that is), she had a habit of upstaging her guests or interrupting them by joining them in a son ...

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Candy Slice was a character played by Gilda Radner on Saturday Night Live. An intense but troubled rock and roll artist, Candy Slice recorded an album in a sketch on December 9, 1978 (the host that day was Eric Idle).[1] In this sketch, Candy Slice was addicted to cocaine. She also performed in the Rock Against Yeast on February 17, 1979, while Rick Nelson was hosting.[2] Her song was dedicated to Mick Jagger and was solely about how Candy Slice was his "biggest funked-up fan". In that sketch, she also hobnobbed with the likes of Olivia Newton-John (Laraine ...

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The show usually follows a standard format. It opens with a cold opening sketch often parodying politics, pop culture, or other current events; this sketch always ends with someone saying "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" The show then segues into the opening credits, which usually open with a shot of the Statue of Liberty and a montage of the cast members cut with various locations around the city. The opening credits are voiced-over by long-time NBC announcer Don Pardo. The show's theme music has been re-arranged man ...

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All That is a live-action comedy-variety show on Nickelodeon, that features sketches in a manner somewhat reminiscent of Saturday Night Live and an earlier Nick show You Can't Do That on Television. The show has guest actors and musical performances each episode. The theme song for All That is performed by TLC. The show was first aired on April 16, 1994 featuring young adults, but around the turn of the millennium it made a big switch to feature ...

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Since it is broadcast live, SNL has had several infamous events that were either unplanned or provoked sufficient controversy to receive media coverage. Several hosts and musical guests have also been banned from returning due to their actions during the show. On the second season premiere (September 18, 1976) Chevy Chase, playing Gerald Ford during a Ford/Carter debate sketch, falls over an unpadded podium and injures his testicles in the process. He misses the next two shows. October 30, 1976, John Belushi acci ...

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Since it is broadcast live, SNL has had several infamous events that were either unplanned or provoked sufficient controversy to receive media coverage. Several hosts and musical guests have also been banned from returning due to their actions during the show. On the second season premiere (September 18, 1976) Chevy Chase, playing Gerald Ford during a Ford/Carter debate sketch, falls over a unpadded podium and injures his testicles in the process. He misses the next two shows. October 30, 1976, John Belushi accid ...

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The following performers have hosted SNL at least five times: Steve Martin (13, including 3 times in one year, 1978; as of February 4, it is expected to be 14) John Goodman (12, including once a season for 11 straight seasons.) Alec Baldwin (12) Buck Henry (10, twice a season for each of the first five seasons) Chevy Chase (9) Tom Hanks (7) Danny DeVito (6) Elliott Gould (6) Christopher Walken (6) Candice Bergen (5) Bill Murray (5)See also:

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Character Lists: Alphabetical and Chronological Character Categories: Weekend Update characters TV show sketches Animal sketches Musical sketches Short-lived characters Below is a short list of some of SNL's most popular recurring sketches. Weekend Update Emily Litella (Gilda Radner) Samurai Futaba (John Belushi) The Coneheads (Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman)See also:

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The early days of SNL spawned a few movies and low-budget films. However, it wasn't until the huge success of Wayne's World that Broadway Video (Lorne Michaels' production company) became encouraged to feature more film spinoffs, with several popular 1990s sketch characters (and a few unlikely ones) becoming adapted into movies. Producers tried their luck with a revival of 1970s characters The Coneheads, followed by movies based around Pat, Stuart Smalley, The Ladies Man, The Butabi Brothers and Mary Katherine Gallagher. Some did mode ...

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For a full list of past and present cast, see Saturday Night Live cast. Saturday Night Live - Notable tenures. Although SNL has a rapid turnover of supporting players, some performers have had long tenures with the show. Few have broken the seven-year barrier. Among the longest serving repertory players are: Darrell Hammond (11 seasons and counting: September 1995 – Present) Tim Meadows (9½ seasons: February 1991 – May 2000) Kevin Nealon ...

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Since the show's inception, SNL has aired from Studio 8H located on Floors 8 and 9 of 30 Rockefeller Plaza (usually nicknamed "30 Rock"). Due to the studio originally being a radio soundstage for Arturo Toscanini and his NBC Symphony Orchestra, the layout of the studio floor and the audience positioning causes some audience members to have an obstructed view of many of the skits. Some shows of the 1976-77 season were shot at the former NBC Studios in Brooklyn, due to NBC News u ...

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The following is a summary of the process used to produce the show. It is based in part on an August 2000 Writer's Digest article and an April 2004 Fresh Air interview with writer and performer Tina Fey: Monday: The day begins with a topical meeting, identifying the biggest story for the show's opening. This is followed by a free-form pitch meeting with Lorne Michaels and the show's host for the week. According to an October 2004 60 Minutes segment on the show, throughout the week the host has a lot o ...

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SNL is one of the few shows on television to have its in- and off-season reruns aired out of its original broadcast sequence. The sequence of the in-season reruns (that is, encore shows that air during the season it originally aired) are usually determined by the episode(s)' popularity. So, for example, if by the midway point of the season in December, a show hosted by Robert DeNiro turned out to be the highest rated show of the season thus far, it would be the first show to be repeated when SNL begins airing its reruns during ...

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Over the years SNL has almost always been broadcast live in the Eastern and Central time zones, in spite of the expletive spoken by Charles Rocket in 1981. Exceptions include shows hosted by Richard Pryor, Sam Kinison, and Andrew Dice Clay, which were broadcast on a five-second delay. The episode scheduled for October 25, 1986, hosted by Rosanna Arquette, was not aired until November 8. NBC was broadcasting Game 6 of the 1986 World Series on the evening of October 25; the game entered extra innings, causing that night's broadca ...

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NBC holds the copyright to every episode of the show made thus far. The syndication rights to the original incarnation (1975–1980) were originally acquired by Filmways Television (later Orion Television and MGM), while the syndication rights to the shows made from 1980 forward (that is, rerun rights beginning two years after its original NBC airings) have been held by Broadway Video, Lorne Michaels' production company. The home video rights have also been scattered. Warner Home Video originally released several episodes from the ori ...

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The show usually follows a standard format. It opens with a cold opening sketch often parodying politics, pop culture, or other current events; this sketch always ends with someone saying "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" The show then segues into the opening credits, which usually open with a shot of the Statue of Liberty and a montage of the cast members cut with various locations around the city. The opening credits are voiced-over by long-time NBC announcer Don Pardo. It was on the aired program on December 3, 2005 was the first ...

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For a full list of past and present cast, see Saturday Night Live cast. Saturday Night Live - Notable tenures. Although SNL has a rapid turnover of supporting players, some performers have had long tenures with the show. Few have broken the eight-year barrier. Among the longest serving repertory players are: Darrell Hammond (10 seasons and counting: September 1995 – Present) Tim Meadows (9½ seasons: February 1991 – May 2000) Kevin Nealon ...

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Since the show's inception, SNL has aired from Studio 8H located on Floors 8 and 9 of 30 Rockefeller Plaza (usually nicknamed "30 Rock"). Due to the studio originally being a radio soundstage for Orchestra, the layout of the studio floor and the audience positioning causes some audience members to have an obstructed view of many of the skits. During the summer 2005 shooting hiatus, crews began renovations on Studio 8H. With its thirty-first season premiere in October 2005, the show began broadcasting in High Definiti ...

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