Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night. The show revolves around a series of sketches parodying American culture and politics, performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Among these sketches is the Weekend Update, news show featuring satirical views of current news stories, which has been performed on every episode of the show. Each episode is hosted by a...
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quick facts
On the air:October 11, 1975
Number of seasons:35
Network:NBC
Writers:James Anderson, Dave Attell, Dan Aykroyd
Producer:Lorne Michaels, Steve Higgins, Marci Klein
Genre:Comedy

Honors and awards

YearAward Won
1993 Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance In A Variety Or Music Program, Dana Carvey
2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor - Comedy Series, Justin Timberlake
2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress - Comedy Series, Tina Fey
1978 Primetime Emmy Award For Best Supporting Actress In Comedy Variety, Variety Musical, Gilda Radner
2010 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress - Comedy Series, Betty White
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YearAward Nomination
2008 Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance In A Variety Or Music Program, Tina Fey
2008 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Comedy Series, Amy Poehler
2008 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program, Charlie Grandy
2008 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Series, Lorne Michaels
2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Series
1983 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Comedy Series, Eddie Murphy
2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Comedy Series, Amy Poehler
2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Comedy Series, Kristen Wiig
2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor - Comedy Series, Justin Timberlake
2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress - Comedy Series, Tina Fey
2001 Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance In A Variety Or Music Program, Will Ferrell
2000 Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance In A Variety Or Music Program, Molly Shannon
1994 Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance In A Variety Or Music Program, Mike Myers
1994 Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance In A Variety Or Music Program, Phil Hartman
1993 Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance In A Variety Or Music Program, Dana Carvey
1992 Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance In A Variety Or Music Program, Dana Carvey
1991 Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance In A Variety Or Music Program, Dana Carvey
1990 Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance In A Variety Or Music Program, Dana Carvey
1989 Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance In A Variety Or Music Program, Dana Carvey
1987 Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance In A Variety Or Music Program, Jon Lovitz
1986 Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance In A Variety Or Music Program, Jon Lovitz
1985 Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance In A Variety Or Music Program, Billy Crystal
1984 Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance In A Variety Or Music Program, Eddie Murphy
1984 Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance In A Variety Or Music Program, Joe Piscopo
1978 Primetime Emmy Award For Best Supporting Actor In Comedy- Variety, Variety Or Music, John Belushi
1978 Primetime Emmy Award For Best Supporting Actor In Comedy- Variety, Variety Or Music, Dan Aykroyd
1978 Primetime Emmy Award For Best Supporting Actress In Comedy Variety, Variety Musical, Jane Curtin
1978 Primetime Emmy Award For Best Supporting Actress In Comedy Variety, Variety Musical, Gilda Radner
1977 Primetime Emmy Award For Best Supporting Actor In Comedy- Variety, Variety Or Music, John Belushi
1977 Primetime Emmy Award For Best Supporting Actor In Comedy- Variety, Variety Or Music, Chevy Chase
1977 Primetime Emmy Award For Best Supporting Actress In Comedy Variety, Variety Musical, Gilda Radner
2010 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction for Variety, Music or Nonfiction Programming, Eugene Lee
2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction for a Multi-Camera Series, Eugene Lee
2004 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction for a Variety or Music Program, Eugene Lee
2010 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Comedy Series, Kristen Wiig
2011 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Comedy Series, Kristen Wiig
1978 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction for a Comedy-Variety or Music Series, Akira Yoshimura
1977 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction for a Comedy-Variety or Music Series, Akira Yoshimura
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Award-winners from Saturday Night Live

Tina Fey
Tina Fey
Born:May 18, 1970

Elizabeth Stamatina "Tina" Fey is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer, known for her work on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live , the NBC comedy series 30 Rock, and films such as Mean Girls , Baby Mama , and Date Night . Fey first broke into comedy as a featured player...
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Gilda Radner
Gilda Radner
Born:June 28, 1946
Died:May 20, 1989

Gilda Susan Radner was an American comedian and actress, best known as one of the original cast members of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, for which she won an Emmy Award in 1978. Radner was born in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Jewish parents Henrietta , a legal secretary,...
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Dana Carvey
Dana Carvey
Born:June 2, 1955

Dana Thomas Carvey is an American actor and stand-up comedian, best known for his work as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and for playing the role of Garth in the Wayne's World movies. Dana Carvey was born in Missoula, Montana, the son of Billie, a schoolteacher, and William Carvey, a high...
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Cast of Saturday Night Live

Ron Howard
Ron Howard
Character:Contestant
Born:Mar. 1, 1954
Age:57
Vince Vaughn
Vince Vaughn
Born:Mar. 28, 1970
Age:41
Jerry Stiller
Jerry Stiller
Character:Stu
Born:June 8, 1927
Age:84
Megan Mullally
Megan Mullally
Born:Nov. 12, 1958
Age:53
Bill Murray
Bill Murray
Born:Sept. 21, 1950
Age:61
Jason Alexander
Jason Alexander
Born:Sept. 23, 1959
Age:52
Kevin Nealon
Kevin Nealon
Born:Nov. 18, 1953
Age:58
Sarah Silverman
Sarah Silverman
Born:Dec. 1, 1970
Age:41
Robert Duvall
Robert Duvall
Born:Jan. 5, 1931
Age:81
Donald Faison
Donald Faison
Character:Christopher Turk
Born:June 22, 1974
Age:37
John Slattery
John Slattery
Character:Roger Sterling
Born:Aug. 13, 1962
Age:49
Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren
Character:Helena Bonham Carter
Born:July 26, 1945
Age:66

Saturday Night Live seasons

SeasonStartedEndedEpisodes
Saturday Night Live - Season 1 1975 1976 24
Saturday Night Live - Season 2 1976 1977 23
Saturday Night Live - Season 3 1977 1978 20
Saturday Night Live - Season 4 1978 1979 20
Saturday Night Live - Season 5 1979 1980 20
Saturday Night Live - Season 6 1980 1981 13
Saturday Night Live - Season 7 1981 1982 20
Saturday Night Live - Season 8 1982 1983 20
Saturday Night Live - Season 9 1983 1984 19
Saturday Night Live - Season 10 1984 1985 17
Saturday Night Live - Season 11 1985 1986 18
Saturday Night Live - Season 12 1986 1987 20
Saturday Night Live - Season 13 1987 1988 13
Saturday Night Live - Season 14 1988 1989 20
Saturday Night Live - Season 15 1989 1990 20
Saturday Night Live - Season 16 1990 1991 20
Saturday Night Live - Season 17 1991 1992 20
Saturday Night Live - Season 18 1992 1993 20
Saturday Night Live - Season 19 1993 1994 20
Saturday Night Live - Season 20 1994 1995 20
Saturday Night Live - Season 21 1995 1996 20
Saturday Night Live - Season 22 1996 1997 20
Saturday Night Live - Season 23 1997 1998 20
Saturday Night Live - Season 24 1998 1999 19
Saturday Night Live - Season 25 1999 2000
Saturday Night Live - Season 26 2000 2001 20
Saturday Night Live - Season 27 2001 2002 20
Saturday Night Live - Season 28 2002 2003 20
Saturday Night Live - Season 29 2003 2004 20
Saturday Night Live - Season 30 2004 2005 20
Saturday Night Live - Season 31 2005 2006 19
Saturday Night Live - Season 32 2006 2007 20
Saturday Night Live - Season 33 2007 2008 12
Saturday Night Live - Season 34 2008 2009 22
Saturday Night Live - Season 35 2009
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Spin offs of Saturday Night Live

TV Funhouse
TV Funhouse
On the air:December 6, 2000 - January 24, 2001
Network:Comedy Central

Saturday TV Funhouse is the title of a recurring skit on NBC's Saturday Night Live featuring cartoons created by longtime SNL writer Robert Smigel as well as a short-lived spinoff series TV Funhouse that ran on Comedy Central. TV Funhouse frequently satirizes public figures and corporations. In between the host segments, it would show either parodies of 1950s educational films or cartoons most frequently drawn in the flat, low-budget style of...
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Other shows on the network

ShowStartedEndedGenre
Cheers 1982 1993 Situation comedy
Frasier 1993 2004 Situation comedy
American Dreamer 1990 1991 Situation comedy
ER 1994 2009 Medical drama
Heroes 2006 2010 Television drama series
Scrubs 2001 2010 Situation comedy
Quantum Leap 1989 1993 Science Fiction
Supertrain 1979 1979 Adventure
Law & Order 1990 2010 Legal drama
The West Wing 1999 2006 Serial drama
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip 2006 2007 Comedy
Star Trek: The Original Series 1966 1969 Science Fiction
Saved by the Bell 1989 1993 Comedy
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. 1966 1967 Espionage
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air 1990 1996 Situation comedy
The Facts of Life 1979 1988 Comedy
Sunset Beach 1997 1999 Soap opera
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In 1968 1973 Sketch
The Rockford Files 1974 1980 Crime Fiction
I Dream of Jeannie 1965 1970 Fantasy
Little House on the Prairie 1974 1983 Western
V 1984 1985 Miniseries
V 1983 1983 Miniseries
Hunter 1984 1991 Crime Fiction
Caesar's Hour 1954 1957 Sketch comedy
Quarterlife 2008 2008 Comedy
Land of the Lost 1983 1989 Puppet
The Final Battle 1984 1984 Miniseries
Celebrity Family Feud 2008 2008 Game show
Working Girl 1990 1990 Situation comedy
Banacek 1972 1974 Crime Fiction
Friends 1994 2004 Situation comedy
Star Trek: The Animated Series 1973 1974 Animation
Seinfeld 1989 1998 Comedy
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 1964 1968 Espionage
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends 1981 1983 Animation
Knight Rider 1982 1986 Action genre
Hollywood Squares 1966 2004 Comedy
Matlock 1986 1996 Police procedural
The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show 1959 1964 Animated cartoon
My World and Welcome to It 1969 1970 Situation comedy
Thundarr the Barbarian 1980 1982 Animation
The Gong Show 1976 1989 Game show
Dragnet 1951 2004 Crime Fiction
Second City Television 1976 1984 Sketch comedy
The Cosby Show 1984 1992 Situation comedy
Family Ties 1982 1989 Situation comedy
Texaco Star Theater 1948 1956 Variety show
Banana Splits 1968 1970 Puppet
The Golden Girls 1985 1992 Situation comedy
ALF 1986 1990 Science Fiction
The Bugaloos 1970 1972 Children's television series
Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1955 1965 Anthology
Maya 1967 1968 Adventure
Columbo 1968 2003 Crime Fiction
Miami Vice 1984 1990 Crime Fiction
Baywatch 1989 2001 Soap opera
Will & Grace 1998 2005 Situation comedy
Whoopi 2003 2004 Situation comedy
Las Vegas 2003 2008 Comedy-drama
Voyagers! 1982 1983 Science Fiction
Watch Mr. Wizard 1951 1972 Educational television
Let's Make a Deal 1963 2003 Game show
Remington Steele 1982 1987 Detective fiction
Ed 2000 2004 Comedy
Homicide: Life on the Street 1993 1999 Crime Fiction
Last Comic Standing 2003 2008 Reality television
Name That Tune 1953 1985 Game show
McMillan and Wife 1971 1977 Crime Fiction
I Spy 1965 1968 Espionage
Average Joe 2003 2005 Reality television
Nashville Star 2003 2008 Reality television
The Pretender 1996 2000 Drama
Gillette Cavalcade of Sports 1946 1960 Sports entertainment
Adam-12 1968 1975 Crime Fiction
The Arthur Murray Party 1950 1960 Variety show
Law & Order: Criminal Intent 2001 2011 Crime Fiction
A Different World 1987 1993 Situation comedy
The Restaurant 2003 2004 Reality television
California Dreams 1992 1996 Situation comedy
Dark Skies 1996 1997 Science Fiction
The Contender 2005 2005 Reality television
Fear Factor 2001 2006 Reality television
Father of the Pride 2004 2004 Comedy
Santa Barbara 1984 1993 Soap opera
The Doctors 1963 1982 Soap opera
Truth or Consequences 1940 1988 Game show
TV Nation 1994 1995 News
Search for Tomorrow 1951 1986 Soap opera
The Flip Wilson Show 1970 1974 Variety show
The Virginian 1962 1971 Western
Garfield and Friends 1988 1994 Animation
Win, Lose or Draw 1987 1990 Game show
Lost 2001 2001 Reality television
Captain N: The Game Master 1989 1991 Animation
Caroline in the City 1995 1999 Situation comedy
Earth 2 1994 1995 Science Fiction
Watching Ellie 2002 2003 Comedy
Wild Kingdom 1963 1988 Edutainment
Concentration 1958 1973 Game show
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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Q:
    Who created the (television show) "Saturday Night Live"?
  • A:
    Lorne Michaels created the show.
  • Q:
    The television show, "Saturday Night Live" is in what genre?
  • A:
    The program is labeled as... Sketch comedy, Variety show, Sketch, Comedy and Satire.
  • Q:
    Who is the producer of the the television show, "Saturday Night Live"?
  • A:
    Lorne Michaels, Steve Higgins and Marci Klein is the producer of the show.
  • Q:
    Which famous celebrity stars in the TV program, Saturday Night Live?
  • A:
    Seka is the show's star host.
  • Q:
    Who is a credited writer for the TV program "Saturday Night Live"?
  • A:
    James Anderson, Dave Attell, Dan Aykroyd, Anne Beatts and James Belushi are popular writers for the TV show.
  • Q:
    Which year did the (tv show) "Saturday Night Live" first show on television?
  • A:
    The television show appeared in October, 1975.
  • Q:
    On which TV network did the TV show, "Saturday Night Live" premier?
  • A:
    The television show was first broadcast by NBC.

Awards & Accolades

  • Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series
    1993, 1976

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