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Article: Saturday Night Live
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SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
(
SNL
) is a ninety-minute comedy and music television series that has been broadcast live from New York City on NBC since 11 October 1975. It employs an ensemble of versatile comic actors in
topical sketches and parodies punctuated by musical performances by guest artists. Because it airs late at night (11:30 p.m. EST), it has been free to present content and language that may not have been acceptable in prime time. The original group of actors consisted of Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Garrett Morris, Jane Curtin, and Laraine Newman. All of that cast were gone after 1980, and since then over seventy people have ...