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Saturday Night Live (season 34)
The thirty-fourth season of ''Saturday Night Live'', an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between September 13, 2008, and May 16, 2009. This season is notable for its take on the 2008 presidential election, which saw the show's ratings rapidly increase and a number of award nominations. History This season consisted of 22 episodes rather than the usual 20, in an attempt to compensate for episodes lost during the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. This made it the longest season since the show's second season. The season premiere date of September 13 was earlier than the premiere date for previous seasons, which typically have started during the final weekend of September or in early October. The show was nominated for many awards including Emmy Awards, a Peabody award and nomination for Comedy/Variety (Including Talk) Series at the Writers Guild of America Awards 2009. After gaining so much media coverage and high seasonal rat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saturday Night Live (season 33)
The thirty-third season of ''Saturday Night Live'', an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between September 29, 2007, and May 17, 2008. History This season also saw the death of the show's very first host: comedian/actor George Carlin. A scheduled rerun of the episode hosted by Ellen Page was replaced with a rerun of the show's very first episode, which had Carlin as host and Janis Ian and Billy Preston as musical guests. Strike Because of the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike, there were only 12 episodes produced in this season instead of the usual 20 (with4 consecutive episodes made between February 23 and March 15), making this the shortest season in the series run and beating out both the sixth (1980–1981) season and the thirteenth (1987–1988) season, which had thirteen episodes and were also cut short due to WGA strikes (the only difference being that the hiatus in season 33 didn't abruptly end the season like it had with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |