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On Saturday Night Live, Maya Rudolph's Kamala Harris Sets the Tone
This weekend, Rudolph returned as the presidential hopeful for SNL's season premiere cold open. There were no nods to the potential historic firsts of a Harris win or old delusions about Trump ...
Glamour
8 hours ago
Kris Kristofferson, country singer, songwriter and actor, dies at 88
Kris Kristofferson, a singer-songwriter whose literary yet plain-spoken compositions infused country music with rarely heard candor and depth, and who later had a successful second career in ...
The Telegraph
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"Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" is a famous phrase typically featured on the American sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, which runs on the NBC broadcast network. It is generally used as a way to end a cold opening sketch and lead into the opening credit montage.
"Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" is a catchphrase used by cast members, hosts or special guests at the end of the cold opening of an episode to segue into the opening sequence.
- Fight! Chevy Chase was hated by the rest of the show’s cast. Once, just before going live, he got into a wild fist-fight with Bill Murray because Chase was smug about how popular he was, and Murray got fed up.
- Can’t Take A Joke. In 2015, in the midst of his campaign for the US Presidency, Donald Trump appeared as a guest on Saturday Night Live. Despite massive protests and petitions against his appearance and Trump's disparaging remarks about the cast and writing staff before the show, he appeared on November 7th, 2015.
- Senator Funnyman. Senator Al Franken is the only former Saturday Night Live cast member to go on to a career in politics. After working on the show as a writer and occasional performer in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, he left for good in 1995 and went on to write books on American politics.
- Political Game. Saturday Night Live is a cultural institution, and politicians are always trying to get on any show that has the viewers’ attention. New York City Mayor Ed Koch was the first politician to appear on the show in 1978, and came back to host three times in 1983 and 1984.
1 day ago · Thompson said that if the show is able to navigate the current shrinking late-night landscape, “It’s a pretty versatile format that can technically go on forever.”. "Saturday Night Live ...
2 days ago · The new movie Saturday Night chronicles a momentous 90 minutes and change in TV history: the time immediately leading up to the premiere of Saturday Night Live on October 11, 1975. Director and ...
3 days ago · 9. The balcony-level seats in Studio 8H in 30 Rock where SNL is filmed are from Yankee Stadium. 10. The first sketch of all time was called “The Wolverines” – in which John Belushi takes ...
"Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" is a famous phrase typically featured on the American sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, which runs on the NBC broadcast network. It is generally used as a way to end a cold opening sketch and lead into the opening credit montage.
