Saturday Night Live - Megathread

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The Megathread!

  Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and richard Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC, a terrestrial television network in the United States, on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.

The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture and politics. Saturday Night Live features a two-tiered cast consisting of repertory members, also called the "Not Ready For Prime Time Players" (the name used by the show's original cast), and newer cast members who are known as "Featured Players."

Each week, the show features a host who delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast. A musical guest also performs. With the exception of season 7, the show has begun with a cold open sketch (usually based around politically-themed current events) that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!"

For all but five seasons (six through ten), the show has been overseen by its creator and current executive producer, Lorne Michaels. Broadway Video, SNL Studios, and NBC jointly manage production. Saturday Night Live is one of the longest-running network television programs in the United States with over 700 episodes broadcast over the span of 36 seasons as of 2011. A number of the show's sketches have been developed into feature films.

Throughout its three decades on air, Saturday Night Live has received a number of awards, including 21 Primetime Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, and three Writers Guild of America Awards. In 2000, it was inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame. It was ranked tenth on TV Guide's "50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time" list, and in 2007 it was listed as one of Time magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME." In 2009, it received 13 Emmy nominations bringing the show to a total of 126, giving it the most Emmy nominations in television history.


Current season: Season 36 [ENDED]

You can watch some of the sketches and full episodes on Hulu.

Recommended Sketches:

• Celebrity Jeopardy (First three videos on the top left)
• What Up With That?
• Taco Town
• Shy Ronnie 1 & Shy Ronnie 2
• richard in a Box (Sorry about the censored version, you need a Hulu account to view it uncensored.)
• Mr. Bill Show
• Weekend Update
  
  • Schweddy Balls
  • Laser Cats
  • The Dana Carvey Show
  • Look at My Butt
  • Grumpy Old Man
  • Church Chat, oh and look! Another Church Chat.
  
  You can suggest sketches to be put on the list.
  
  Past 5 Episodes:
  
  [5/21/11] Host: Justin Timberlake - Musical Guest: Lady Gaga
  [5/14/11] Host: Ed Helms - Musical Guest: Paul Simon
  [5/7/11] Host: Tina Fey - Musical Guest: Ellie Golding
  [4/9/11] Host: Helen Mirren - Musical Guest: Foo Fighters
  [4/2/11] Host and Musical Guest: Elton John
  
  SNL Website
  
  Discuss.
  

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[Orion]

saturday night live is hillarious.

and first post.

[Comatose]

saturday night live is hillarious.

and first post.

Agreed. Too bad the season ended yesterday. :c

[Orion]

the first SNL i've seen was Taco Town, and that was awesome.

[Anti-Block]

The comedy of the show really relies on the guest star and the writers.

[Comatose]

The comedy of the show really relies on the guest star and the writers.

Exactly.

[Momentum]

OOOOOOHHHH YEEEAAAA

WHAT UP WITH THAT

WHAT UP WITH THAT

I love those little parts, and the weekend update.

[Skateaton]

i saw it last night with my dad, the lady gaga episode (and justin timberlake) Was loltastic. especially the news report about the gas leak at school, and the anamatronics taking the girl, holy stuff last nights was awesome

[SkullCandy]

Mr. Bill

'nuff said.

[SkullCandy]

bump.

[Comatose]

Anybody wanna suggest some skits?

[Comatose]

Bump.

[MillCzarr]

Saturday night live is dumb. Their comedy is to dirty.

[nickbond1]

SNL gave us Ghostbusters and Stripes, I approve.

[SkullCandy]

Mr. Bill

'nuff said.