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| x The Blues Brothers |
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The Blues Brothers is a 1980 musical comedy directed by John Landis and starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as "Joliet" Jake and Elwood Blues, characters developed from a musical sketch on the NBC variety series Saturday Night Live. It features...
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Wayne's World is a 1992 comedy film starring Mike Myers as Wayne Campbell and Dana Carvey as Garth Algar, hosts of the Aurora, Illinois-based cable access television show Wayne's World. The film was adapted from a sketch of the same name on NBC's...
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Wayne's World 2 is a 1993 comedy film starring Mike Myers and Dana Carvey as hosts of a cable access television show from Aurora, Illinois. The movie was adapted from a sketch on NBC's Saturday Night Live and is the sequel to Wayne's World.
Wayne...
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| x Coneheads |
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Coneheads is the title of a 1993 movie based on the Saturday Night Live sketches about the Coneheads. The film was directed by Steve Barron and produced by Lorne Michaels. As was the case with the previous SNL skit-inspired film The Blues Brothers,...
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| x Stuart Saves His Family |
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Stuart Saves His Family is a 1995 comedy film directed by Harold Ramis, and based on a series of Saturday Night Live sketches from the early-to-mid 1990s. The movie tracks the adventures of would-be self-help guru Stuart Smalley, a creation of...
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| x A Night at the Roxbury |
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A Night at the Roxbury is a 1998 comedy film based on a recurring skit on television's long-running Saturday Night Live called The Roxbury Guys. Saturday Night Live regulars Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan, Molly Shannon, and Colin Quinn star.
The film...
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Superstar is a 1999 comedy movie and Saturday Night Live spin-off about a quirky, socially inept girl named Mary Katherine Gallagher. The character was created by SNL star Molly Shannon and appeared as a recurring character on SNL in numerous skits....
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| x The Ladies Man |
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The Ladies Man is a comedy film released in 2000 that stars actor, comedian and former Saturday Night Live cast member Tim Meadows. It was directed by Reginald Hudlin. The movie focuses on the exploits of radio host and sex therapy expert Leon...
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| x Mike Myers |
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Michael John "Mike" Myers (born May 25, 1963) is a Canadian-English actor, comedian, screenwriter and film producer. He was a long-time cast member on the NBC sketch show Saturday Night Live in the late 1980s and the early 1990s and starred as the...
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| x Dana Carvey |
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Dana Thomas Carvey (born June 2, 1955) is an American actor and comedian, best known for his work on Saturday Night Live and in the Wayne's World movies.
Carvey was born in Missoula, Montana, the son of Billie, a schoolteacher, and William Carvey, a...
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| x Chris Farley |
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Christopher Crosby "Chris" Farley (February 15, 1964 – December 18, 1997) was an American comedian and actor. Farley was a member of Chicago's The Second City Theatre and the cast of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live. He has also...
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| x Will Ferrell |
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John William "Will" Ferrell (pronounced /ˈfɛrəl/; born July 16, 1967) is an American comedian, actor, voice actor and writer. Ferrell first established himself as a cast member of Saturday Night Live, and has subsequently starred in the comedy films...
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| x Mark McKinney |
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Mark Douglas Brown McKinney (born June 26, 1959) is a Canadian comedian and actor, best known for his work in the long-running sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall. Following the run of their television series (1989 to 1995) and feature film ...
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Molly Helen Shannon (born September 16, 1964) is an American actress, comedian and writer. She is best known for her work as a cast member of Saturday Night Live from 1995-2001, and starred on the NBC sitcom Kath & Kim. She is also well known for...
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| x Chris Parnell |
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Thomas Christopher "Chris" Parnell (born February 5, 1967) is an American actor and comedian who was a Saturday Night Live cast member in 1998-2001 and 2002-2006. He has a recurring role as Dr. Leo Spaceman on NBC's Emmy Award-winning 30 Rock and...
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| x Tim Meadows |
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Tim Meadows (born February 5, 1961) is an American actor and comedian who performed on the TV show Saturday Night Live.
Meadows was born in Highland Park, Michigan, the son of Mardell, a nurse's assistant, and Lathon Meadows, a janitor. Meadows's...
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| x Chris Kattan |
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Christopher Lee "Chris" Kattan (born October 19, 1970) is an American actor/comedian, best known for his work on the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live.
Kattan was born in Sherman Oaks, California. His father, Kip King (né Jerome C. Kattan), is...
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| x Colin Quinn |
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Colin Quinn (born June 6, 1959) is an Irish-American stand-up comedian and writer, best known for his five years in the cast of Saturday Night Live, as co-host of MTV's wildly popular late-1980's gameshow Remote Control and as host of Tough Crowd...
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| x John Belushi |
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John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was an American comedian, actor, and musician notable for his work on Saturday Night Live, National Lampoon's Animal House, and The Blues Brothers. He was the older brother of James Belushi....
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| x Dan Aykroyd |
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Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, CM (July 1, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Canadian-American comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, winemaker and ufologist. He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, an...
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| x David Spade |
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David Wayne Spade is an American actor, comedian and television personality who first became famous in the 1990s as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, and from 1997 until 2003 starred as Dennis Finch on Just Shoot Me!. He also starred as C.J....
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Jane Therese Curtin (born September 6, 1947) is an American actress and comedienne.
First coming to prominence as an original cast member on Saturday Night Live in 1975, she would go on to win back-to-back Emmy Awards for Best Lead Actress in a...
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| x Michael McKean |
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David Ivor St. Hubbins (born August 13 1947) is a fictional character who is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the mock rock band Spinal Tap, which was the subject of "mockumentary" film This Is Spinal Tap (1984). David is played by actor...
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| x Julia Sweeney |
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Julia Anne Sweeney (born October 10, 1959) is an American actress, comedian and author best known for her Saturday Night Live career and autobiographical solo shows.
Sweeney was born in Spokane, Washington, the daughter of Jeri, a homemaker, and...
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| x Al Franken |
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Alan Stuart "Al" Franken (born May 21, 1951) is the junior United States Senator from Minnesota. He is a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, that state's affiliate of the Democratic Party.
Franken first became famous as a writer...
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| x Saturday Night Live - Season 1 |
The first season of Saturday Night Live, the weekly late-night 90-minute American sketch comedy/variety show on NBC, aired during the 1975–1976 television season. Saturday Night Live premiered on October 11, 1975 and consisted of a total of 24...
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| x Saturday Night Live - Season 2 |
Saturday Night Live aired its second season during the 1976–1977 television season on NBC. This season saw the first of what would be many times that SNL has had a change in casting. Chevy Chase, who was pursuing a girl (and a movie career) in...
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| x Saturday Night Live - Season 5 |
Saturday Night Live aired its fifth season during the 1979–1980 television season on NBC. John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd left the show at the end of the fourth season, leaving a void in the cast that most fans thought would be the beginning of the end...
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| x Saturday Night Live - Season 6 |
Saturday Night Live aired its sixth season during the 1980–1981 television season on NBC. This season became notorious as it was considered by many to be one of the worst seasons ever. Lorne Michaels, executive producer, had left after the previous...
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| x Saturday Night Live - Season 8 |
Saturday Night Live aired its eighth season during the 1982–1983 season on NBC. This was the third season to air since Lorne Michaels had left his first tenure as executive producer. There were minor casting changes done. Christine Ebersole, Tony...
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| x Saturday Night Live - Season 9 |
Saturday Night Live aired its ninth season during the 1983–1984 television season on NBC. With the exception of hiring (and firing, then rehiring) Jim Belushi (brother of late SNL castmember John Belushi), there were no other cast additions. There...
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| x Saturday Night Live - Season 11 |
Saturday Night Live aired its eleventh season during the 1985-1986 television season on NBC. Though SNL was on the chopping block over the summer of 1985, Lorne Michaels agreed to return to his executive producer position after a five-year absence....
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| x Saturday Night Live - Season 12 |
Saturday Night Live aired its twelfth season during the 1986-1987 television season on NBC. Despite plans to have SNL canceled due to its disastrous 11th season, Lorne Michaels pushed Brandon Tartikoff to give the show another chance, provided that...
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| x Saturday Night Live - Season 13 |
Saturday Night Live aired its thirteenth season during the 1987-1988 television season on NBC. Except for Kevin Nealon moving from featured player to repertory player, there were no major cast changes. There were, however, major events that impeded...
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| x Saturday Night Live - Season 14 |
Saturday Night Live aired its fourteenth season during the 1988 - 1989 television season on NBC. With the exception of Mike Myers and Ben Stiller being hired as featured players, there were no major cast changes. There were, however, many memorable...
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| x Saturday Night Live - Season 16 |
Saturday Night Live aired its sixteenth season during the 1990-1991 television season on NBC. Lorne Michaels said during the SNL in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation special, that he didn't want to be put in the spot of having to replace the entire cast...
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| x Saturday Night Live - Season 17 |
Saturday Night Live aired its seventeenth season during the 1991-1992 television season on NBC. This was Victoria Jackson's final season. Kevin Nealon replaced Dennis Miller as Weekend Update anchor. The seventeenth season started on September 28,...
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| x Saturday Night Live - Season 18 |
Saturday Night Live aired its eighteenth season during the 1992-1993 television season on NBC. Dana Carvey left mid-season. Newer actors such as David Spade, Chris Farley, and Adam Sandler became fan favorites. This season was also home to one of...
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| x Saturday Night Live - Season 19 |
Saturday Night Live aired its nineteenth season during the 1993-1994 television season on NBC.
Three new featured players were added to the cast: Norm Macdonald, Jay Mohr and Sarah Silverman. The three also served as new staff writers on the show....
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| x Saturday Night Live - Season 20 |
Saturday Night Live aired its twentieth season during the 1994–95 television season on NBC. Much like seasons six and eleven, this season was lambasted by critics for its decline in quality. Norm Macdonald became the Weekend Update anchor at the...
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| x Saturday Night Live - Season 21 |
Saturday Night Live aired its twenty-first season during the 1995-1996 television season on NBC. SNL once again dodged cancellation from season twenty's low ratings and scathing reviews about the show's decline in quality. Only five repertory cast...
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| x Saturday Night Live - Season 22 |
Saturday Night Live aired its twenty-second season during the 1996-1997 television season on NBC. Cast members David Koechner, David Spade and Nancy Walls did not return. Head writer and featured player Fred Wolf stayed on for the first 3 episodes...
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| x Saturday Night Live - Season 23 |
Saturday Night Live aired its twenty-third season during the 1997–98 television season on NBC. Few changes took place during the preceding summer hiatus, save for the departure of Mark McKinney and the promotion of Colin Quinn from featured player...
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| x Saturday Night Live - Season 24 |
Saturday Night Live aired its twenty-fourth season during the 1998-1999 television season on NBC. After two years, Saturday Night Live hired new cast members including Horatio Sanz of Second City in Chicago, Chris Parnell of The Groundlings in Los...
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| x Saturday Night Live - Season 25 |
Saturday Night Live aired its twenty-fifth season during the 1999-2000 television season on NBC. The season started off with a 25th anniversary special, looking back at the series' memorable moments. Jimmy Fallon, Chris Parnell, and Horatio Sanz...
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| x Saturday Night Live - Season 26 |
Saturday Night Live aired its twenty-sixth season during the 2000-2001 television season on NBC. The season began on October 7, 2000 and ended on May 19, 2001. Five-year veterans Cheri Oteri and Colin Quinn left the show that year. Tim Meadows, who...
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| x Saturday Night Live - Season 27 |
Saturday Night Live aired its twenty-seventh season during the 2001-2002 television season on NBC. Eighteen days before the season started, the September 11, 2001 attacks took place in New York which devastated the country and raised questions on...
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| x Saturday Night Live - Season 28 |
Saturday Night Live aired its 28th season during the 2002-2003 television season on NBC. This season saw a slight decline in quality due to the departure of Will Ferrell (because of his movie career) and Ana Gasteyer (who was on maternity leave and...
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| x Saturday Night Live - Season 29 |
Saturday Night Live aired its twenty-ninth season during the 2003–04 television season on NBC. Despite Chris Kattan's and Tracy Morgan's departure, they cameoed in several episodes. Seth Meyers, Jeff Richards, and Will Forte were promoted to...
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| x Saturday Night Live - Season 31 |
Saturday Night Live aired its thirty-first season in the 2005-2006 television season on NBC. This season contained minor changes that would garner major results for the show. Finesse Mitchell and Kenan Thompson's promotions to repertory players and...
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| x Saturday Night Live - Season 32 |
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Saturday Night Live aired its thirty-second season during the 2006-2007 television season. Tina Fey and Rachel Dratch left after the previous season to work on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock while Chris Parnell, Horatio Sanz, and Finesse Mitchell were fired...
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| x Weekend Update |
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Weekend Update is a Saturday Night Live sketch which comments on and parodies current events. It is the show's longest running recurring sketch, having been on since the show's first broadcast, and is typically presented in the middle of the show...
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An animated cartoon is a short, hand-drawn (or made with computers to look similar to something hand-drawn) film for the cinema, television or computer screen, featuring some kind of story or plot (even if it is a very short one). This is distinct...
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An SNL Digital Short is a short comedic or musical video segment created for airing on NBC's Saturday Night Live. Most Digital Shorts are produced by The Lonely Island and written by Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone and Andy Samberg in collaboration...
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A monologue (or monolog) is an extended uninterrupted speech by a character in a drama. The character may be speaking his or her thoughts aloud, directly addressing another character, or speaking to the audience, especially the former. Monologues...
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