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History of Saturday Night Live |
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1975–1980 |
seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
1980–1985 |
seasons 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 |
1985–1990 |
seasons 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 |
1990–1995 |
seasons 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 |
1995–2000 |
seasons 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 |
2000–2005 |
seasons 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 |
2005–2010 |
seasons 31, 32, 33, 34, 35 |
2010–2015 |
seasons 36, 37, 38, 39, 40 |
2015–2020 |
seasons 41, 42, 43, 44, 45 |
2020–present |
seasons 46, 47, 48, 49 |
Weekend Update |
Saturday Night Live is an American sketch comedy series created by Lorne Michaels, who also produced many episodes. The show has aired on NBC since 1975.
After the 1984–85 season, producer Dick Ebersol pitched a retool of the show that emphasized taped material over live material; NBC declined and Ebersol left, reinstating Michaels. Michaels hired a new and younger cast, but the 1985–86 season received unfavorable reviews.
Michaels fired most of the cast before the 1986–87 season, hiring a new cast that included members Phil Hartman and Jon Lovitz. This cast would remain relatively stable until the 1990–91 season.
Dick Ebersol left SNL because NBC refused his request to shut the program down entirely for six months in order to shift most of the material from a live broadcast onto tape. NBC briefly considered cancelling the show, but programming head Brandon Tartikoff (a fan of SNL) decided to keep it, re-hiring former producer Lorne Michaels.
Michaels wanted a younger cast for the show. He hired Academy Award nominee Randy Quaid, best known for his work in The Last Detail and National Lampoon's Vacation, as well as Robert Downey Jr. and Joan Cusack.
Michaels later said about the 1985-1986 cast that "perhaps I was too young". As Al Franken stated, "You couldn't do a Senate hearing with Anthony Michael Hall, Robert Downey Jr., Terry Sweeney. I mean, those guys aren't senators."
Ratings were weak, and some cast members did not expect the show to be renewed. NBC briefly did cancel the show at the end of the 1985–1986 season. Michaels asked for another season. He ended the season's last show with a sketch in which the cast (playing themselves) get caught in a fire, and Michaels chooses to rescue only Lovitz.
When the 1986-1987 season began, only Lovitz, Nora Dunn, Dennis Miller, and featured player A. Whitney Brown returned as cast members. Michaels went back to his original tactic of assembling a strong ensemble of relative unknowns, led by Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, Jan Hooks, Victoria Jackson, and Kevin Nealon.
The first show of the 1986–1987 season opened with Madonna, host of the previous season opener, telling the audience that the entire 1985–1986 season had been a "horrible, horrible dream".
With the new cast, SNL gained renewed popularity. However, the 1987–1988 season was cut short by a writers strike. Gilda Radner had also been penciled in to host the season finale in the spring, but died in May 1989 after her cancer returned. Steve Martin, Radner's close friend, was scheduled to host SNL that night. Instead of his planned monologue, he presented a sketch from the 1970s featuring himself and Radner dancing.
Dana Carvey's impression of George H. W. Bush is widely remembered, and Hartman's send-up of President Ronald Reagan kickstarted the most fruitful and successful period of political parody on SNL.
Nora Dunn made headlines in 1990 when she, along with original musical guest Sinéad O'Connor, boycotted an episode hosted by comedian Andrew Dice Clay because they found his misogynistic humor offensive. After this incident, Dunn was fired from the show.
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This season included SNL's 15th anniversary special.
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