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The striking cast members and writers of NBC's 30 Rock and Saturday Night Live programs will present one-night-only live performances of the shows at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre this weekend. The (already) sold-out performances will benefit the Writers Guild strike fund.
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A similar show to Saturday Night Live and In Living Color, sketch comedy series MADtv mines the world of popular culture for subjects ripe for parody. Based on the comic stylings of MAD magazine,... more
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At the second annual Radio Music Awards from Las Vegas' Aladdin Resort on Saturday night, Britney Spears performed her new song Stronger live via satellite from Hanover, Germany. Britney's energetic stage routine in Germany stole the show.
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Emmy Award winner Doug Abeles has been the head writer for Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" since 2003. January 15While in the press room following the Golden Globes, Grey's Anatomy star Isaiah Washington used a homophobic slur in reference to cast mate T.R. Knight. What's weird is that the question he was responding to was, "Who are you wearing?" January 24Tyra Banks took an HIV test on her show and revealed the results on the air. read more
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Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late night 90 minute American comedy-variety show based in New York City that has been broadcast live by NBC on Saturday nights since October 11, 1975. In Canada it is simulcast on the Global Television Network, live in the Eastern, Central, and Atlantic time zones and with recorded broadcasts from NBC stations in the Mountain and Pacific Time Zones. It is one of the longest-running network entertainment programs in American television history. Each week, the show's cast is joined by a guest host and musical act.
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The balcony level studio audience seats in Studio 8H, where Saturday Night Live is broadcast from, are actually seats on-loan from Yankees Stadium in the Bronx, New York. NY Yankees owner George M. Steinbrenner III loaned them out in 1975 with the assumption that Saturday Night Live wouldn't stay on the air long (they were expected back upon cancellation of the show). Partly out of both tradition and superstition, the seats are still in use to this day. Since then, NBC has had to pay out annual fines to the city of New York (a relatively minor business expense, all things considered). In addition, any time repair work is needed, repair people are sent directly to the studio to do work there, which is more expensive than taking seats to a repair shop.
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