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	ipedia.com: Saturday Night Live Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late-night ninety-minute live comedy-variety show which has been on NBC since 1975.
		Some sketches which survived the cut because of their premise but otherwise needed a lot of work are rewritten completely.
		Sketches and other segments are given labels which are put on index cards and put on the board in the order of their performance.
	www.ipedia.com /saturday_night_live.html (1282 words)

	Saturday Night Live Cast Pictures - Saturday Night Live Cast and Crew - TV.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He joined "Saturday Night Live" on September 29, 2001 as a featured player and was promoted to regular in the 2003-2004 season....
		She joined "Saturday Night Live" on September 29, 2001 as a featured player, and was promoted to cast member status the...
		Tom Schiller was one of the original writers on "Saturday Night Live," and later became one of the show's first "featured players" (you're not a regular, but you appear in sketches anyway).
	www.tv.com /saturday-night-live/show/365/cast.html (1993 words)

	Television Info
		Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late-night 90-minute comedy-variety show from NBC which has been broadcast virtually every Saturday night since its debut on October 11, 1975.
		The show continues with more comedy skits (sketches might feature recurring characters, running gags, celebrity impersonations, movie and TV spoofs, and skits parodying the news issues of the day), followed by a performance by the guest musical act.
		NBC executives were furious, and the sketch was thought to be the reason why Franken was not considered to replace Lorne Michaels at the end of the season.
	televisioninfo.blogspot.com (5049 words)

	Saturday Night Live - The Best of Chris Rock - SNLPeople.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As one of "Saturday Night Live's"most famous comedians, Chris Rock created a long line of classic characters and impressions in his 3 years on the show.
		A few recurring sketches are here, but they are from when he hosted the show.
		For instnace, in the "Sinatra Group" sketch (this one's my favorite), his role as 2 Live Crew star is sadly limited, as Phil Hartman shines as Frank Sinatra (though to be fair, Sinatra is supposed to be the main focus).
	www.snlpeople.com /media.asp?mediaID=8 (748 words)

	New York Post Online Edition: entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The sight of "Live" crawling on all fours out of the starting gate is a painful one for fans who have an emotional attachment to a show that in its better years defined what TV sketch comedy could be.
		Meanwhile, the sketch writer says, he's mystified at the behemoth show's weakness given that the city's sketch comedy scene - which, ironically, is full of talent that was inspired by the show's better years - has never been stronger.
		Why "Saturday Night Live," which can attract any talent it wants, isn't a thousand times better is a source of some headscratching for those who bewail the show's lameness.
	www.nypost.com /entertainment/55772.htm (1060 words)

	Film & TV: "SNL" vs. "MAD-TV" (Weekly Alibi . 02-23-98)
		Saturday night may seem an odd night in which to wage a war for TV viewership.
		The addition of the animated "Saturday TV Funhouse" with its rude cartoons like "The Ambiguously Gay Duo" is often the only high point in an otherwise laughless night.
		Sketches like the Claymation parodies of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (crossed with Apocalypse Now last Christmas and The Godfather the year before) have already become TV classics.
	weeklywire.com /ww/02-23-98/alibi_idiot.html (538 words)

	Not-So-FAQ - The Show
		A: Requests for "Saturday Night Live" tickets are accepted by postcard only, and only during the month of August (one postcard per person).
		They are distributed for both the dress rehearsal and the live show on the morning of the show at 7:00 a.m.
		Saturday Night" (1992), "Coneheads" (1993), "Wayne's World 2" (1993), "It's Pat" (1994), "Casper" (1995), "Stuart Saves His Family" (1995), "Blues Brothers 2000" (1998), "A Night at the Roxbury" (1998), "Office Space" (1999), "Superstar" (1999), and "The Ladies Man" (2000).
	www.saturday-night-live.com /snl/notso-faq/theshow.html (1025 words)

	Saturday Night Live: More cowbell! - TWoP Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It managed to take the sketch-comedy characters from the confines of their one set out into the real world without missing a beat, and they were surrounded with a quality supporting cast (most notably, a note-perfect Rob Lowe).
		The insistence that these characters have enough meat to become film characters is symptomatic of the recurring-character-based trend of the last few years.
		The heavy reliance on recurring characters these days runs the double-risk of the character overstaying his welcome and taking up space where new-concept sketches could hit bigger than tired retreads of old characters.
	forums.televisionwithoutpity.com /index.php?showtopic=1150983&st=0 (1314 words)

	Saturday Night Live (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Each recurring skit was indistinguishable from the last in terms of the characters (Mary Catherine Gallagher always trips and falls and puts her fingers under her arms, the Cheerleaders always cheer where they don't belong, Marion Barry's always on crack, etc.).
		Saturday night Live goes through it's periods of funniness and unfunniness but I think one of the funniest sketches was when they had Christopher Walken on pretending to be this gigalo-type character with a fake mustache.
		Saturday Night Live has blown from the moment it first hit the airwaves, and seeing now is like being jabbed in both eyes with a pair of red hot letter openers.
	www.jumptheshark.com /s/snl.htm (17547 words)

	Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches (listed chronologically) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		All listings indicate the first appearance of the character or sketch.
		Uri (Sabra Sketches) (Tom Hanks) – December 8, 1990
		Season’s Greetings From Saturday Night Live (Christmas is Number One) (Horatio Sanz, Jimmy Fallon, Chris Kattan, Tracy Morgan) – December 16, 2000
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Recurring_Saturday_Night_Live_characters_and_sketches_(listed_chronologically) (3084 words)

	Boulder Weekly \| Buzz \| CenterStage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When people think of sketch comedy, the 800-pound gorilla that usually comes to mind is "Saturday Night Live." From the John Belushi, Jane Curtain years through Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy’s tenures to the Adam Sandler and Chris Rock epoch and now on to… honestly, I don’t know.
		The sketches, which are for the most part stand-alone entities, are presented at breakneck speed by the Players.
		Though each sketch is seemingly unconnected to the rest, there is a sort of tenuous, meta plot that acts as a framework for the show.
	www.boulderweekly.com /archive/041703/centerstage.html (1093 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Saturday Night Live - Best of Will Ferrell at Epinions.com
		The scene looked normal at first, but almost immediately he began yelling maniacally at his kids offscreen (communicating with unseen characters became a trademark of recurring characters from this point on), warning them to "Get off the shed!" or else he would put the hurt on them.
		The Celebrity Jeopardy sketches were written more sharply in its earlier days, and by this point much of the humor would come from unnecessary name-calling of Trebek's mother by Connery.
		In time, the sketch focused soley on Ferrell and Kattan as the Brothers Butabi, who would often hit on female hosts playing characters of their pursuits.
	www.epinions.com /content_171208380036 (2084 words)

	Saturday Night Live - The Best of Dana Carvey - SNLPeople.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Whether he's doing Ross Perot, Tom Brokaw (the best sketch on the dvd) or President George W. Bush (interesting fact: Carvey has portrayed prez 41 38 times, the second most recurring impression after Darrell Hammond's Bill Clinton (73 times)), he made you feel like he was really them.
		He was one of the show's most vesatile performers of the classic 1986-93 years, creating a wide range of classic characters and dead on impressions.
		All of the sketches featured here are hilarious (though I would have preferred a full "Church Chat" bit and the 1988 and 1992 debates sketch with Bush).
	www.snlpeople.com /media.asp?mediaID=9 (613 words)

	whatevs (dot org) \| Saturday Night Live Season 30: Episode 11 - Paris Hilton / Keane (2/5/05)
		The rest of tonight’s episode was filled with average sketches demonstrating how most of the cast are either still searching for stand-out ideas or have simply given up.
		This might be a long shot, but I would love to see, just once, the writers come up with sketch ideas that are funny and clever in their own right, instead of lousy, yet safe, bullshit material that’s based solely on what they think the host can pull off.
		It’ll be interesting to see the extreme differences between the truly clever sketch writing that stood on its own feet, no matter who the host was, to the lazy, Hollywood gossip crap that we’re subjected to today.
	www.whatevs.org /snl30_hilton.htm (1650 words)

	Saturday Night Live - History
		Saturday Night Live is a late-night sketch-comedy television program which has been running on NBC (National Broadcasting Company) since it's premiere on October 11, 1975.
		It is seen live, by the east coast, at 11:30 p.m.
		Popular recurring characters were no where to be found and many sketches seemed to have no ending.
	snl-ibc.jt.org /history.phtml (790 words)

	SNL Archives \| Characters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The cast members and frequent guests of Saturday Night Live have created over 600 recurring characters since the show debuted in 1975.
		Each character has their own page in The Archives, which lists who played them, as well as a summary of the sketches they appeared in.
		A group is two or more characters which share a common theme, or frequently appear together in non-recurring sketches.
	snl.jt.org /group.php?i=98 (133 words)

	Hrih DVD, Saturday Night Live - The Best of Dana Carvey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The opening sequence of this video, a lively and hilarious parody of a contentious Ross Perot press conference, immediately makes one wonder whether the public, when recalling Perot's 1992 presidential campaign, remembers Perot himself or Dana Carvey's dead-on impression of the eccentric billionaire.
		Some sketches, such as one featuring the misbegotten character Massive Head Wound Harry, may make you wonder how it wound up on this tape, but for the most part this is very impressive collection of Carvey's best work.
		The opening sketch is a lively parody of Ross Perot's press conferences.
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	SNL Transcripts: George Carlin: 10/11/75 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Being from California, Brooks failed to see the merit of doing a live show, suggesting instead that they tape the show twice without stopping tape earlier in the day, and playing the best of both performances in the show's time slot.
		Though the show is filmed live each week, the dress rehearsals and live performances would often be edited together for repeats aired later in the season.
		Even though the network advised no more Bee sketches, Lorne Michaels thought the bit was funny and original and insisted on bringing the Bees back each week, making them SNL's first recurring characters.
	snltranscripts.jt.org /75/75a.phtml (1121 words)

	Will Ferrell Greatest Moments
		If it was a very popular recurring sketch, I only picked the best one of the bunch.
		So while I feel he was the funniest one on the show all the way to the end, I also prefer to honor his earlier SNL stuff, when he was more unknown and less established.
		And I have never really seen all the sketches from his last two years, I kind of lost interest in the show then, since I felt he should be gone already.
	members.aol.com /MLanza1974/ferrell.htm (592 words)

	Saturday Night You: Frequently Asked Questions
		In the past few seasons, there have been many disgruntled viewers of "Saturday Night Live", who, at the end of a live show, kick their televisions and complain that they could write better material.
		The idea for Saturday Night You was first proposed by Patrick Lonergan at his SNL Transcripts message board; Tony Dumont later coined the site's title.
		Everyone is welcome to send in sketches for our updates, by sending your sketch though email.
	snlyou.jt.org /faq.phtml (1014 words)

	Amazon.com: Saturday Night Live - 25th Anniversary: DVD: Dan Aykroyd,Alec Baldwin,Candice Bergen,David Bowie,Garth ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Like many of the clips that make up the bulk of its content, the Saturday Night Live 25th Anniversary special suffers from that malady specific to almost every SNL sketch: it starts out brilliantly, loses steam about halfway through, then slowly but gamely limps to the finish line with occasional spurts of humor.
		A show like "Saturday Night Live" definitely deserves a special like the one it got for its 25th anniversary special.
		Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live by Tom Shales
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000214GF?v=glance (2138 words)

	William Morris Agency
		On SNL, Thompson contributes to numerous sketches and parodies, and is also famous for his dead- on impersonations including the legendary Bill Cosby.
		The live action movie includes all of the characters you knew and loved as a kid, and will open in theaters this holiday season.
		A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Thompson made his television debut as a member of Nickelodeon's all-kid sketch comedy series "All That." He and his partner Kel Mitchell debuted in a spinoff show "Kenan and Kel" in 1996.
	www.wma.com /kenan_thompson/summary (134 words)

	GetOut Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		“Mary-Louise Parker's character loses her husband in an accident, and in a desperate attempt to make ends meet, she resorts to selling pot,” Nealon says of the series, which is set to premiere in June and also features Elizabeth Perkins.
		Nealon — who starred on NBC's “Saturday Night Live” for nine seasons and was the show's longest-running cast member — is no stranger to odd roles.
		They probably think they're going to see some characters or sketches from ‘Saturday Night Live.’ I'll do a few things from ‘Saturday Night Live,’ a couple of characters like Hans and Franz or Mr.
	www.getoutaz.com /events/weeds0203.shtml (370 words)

	Saturday Night You: Sketch Writers: Jean-Phillippe Arcand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I was born on May 25th, 1986 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and since then I have been living in a happy, peaceful world.
		Jay, Conan and, of course, Saturday Night Live.
		I've learned everything about the show's history, the famous recurring characters and the different cast members (especially my all-time favorite performer, Kevin Nealon).
	snlyou.jt.org /writers/arcand.phtml (416 words)

	Saturday Night Live: 1999-2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Live, from New York, it's Saturday Night Live 25!
		And most of the current cast celebrates five years with the intent to finalize their contracts with "Saturday Night Live".
		Overall, 1999 is one of the more unstable seasons in "Saturday Night Live"'s history.
	snltranscripts.jt.org /99/1999.phtml (192 words)

	Ed Grimley - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Edward Mayhoff 'Ed' Grimley was a character introduced on the television series SCTV and later used in Saturday Night Live.
		After achieving popularity on SNL, Grimley became a cartoon character on Hanna-Barbera's animated show The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley (1988).
		In each episode, Grimley would have an adventure of some sort, interspersed with science lessons from The Amazing Gustav Brothers, and a 'scary story' presented as a show-within-a-show by Grimley's favourite television host, Count Floyd.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Ed_Grimley (216 words)

	Second City Television
		Their training in live improvisational comedy has meant that they continue to appear in a variety of capacities, but primarily as writers and performers.
		Other recurring figures were the bon vivant and itinerant host Johnny LaRue (Candy) and the endearingly inept Ed Grimley (Short).
		At NBC, it became part of the "Late Night Comedy Wars" between the re-named SCTV Network 90 on Fridays from 12:30 A.M. to 2:00 A.M., ABC's Fridays on the same night from 12:30 A.M. to 1:30 A.M., and NBC's Saturday Night Live.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/S/htmlS/secondcityt/secondcityt.htm (666 words)

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