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Posts Tagged ‘SNL’

Steve Krakauer of MediaBistro.com Interviews SNL Head Writer Seth Myers

By Denis Campbell • May 15th, 2008 • Category: Media

Seven years into his job at one of the “last bastions” of live TV, this funny guy talks business.
SNL has become part of the history of the 2008 presidential primary season, as the show was credited with originally helping Hillary Clinton by pointing out the media’s favoritism of Barack Obama. Then this week, SNL had [...]



For 33 Years, “Live, from New York…It’s Saturday Night”

By Denis Campbell • May 15th, 2008 • Category: Features, Lead Story

This Saturday Night the curtain falls on Season 33 of a program begun in the Fall of my freshman year at University. NBC’s Saturday Night’s first few episodes were mostly forgettable. The show began on 11 October 1975 at 11:30 pm where for 90-minutes cast members, Chevy Chase, Dan Akroyd, Gilda Radner, Laraine Newman, Jane [...]