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Saturday Night Live (season 13)
The thirteenth season of ''Saturday Night Live'', an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between October 17, 1987 and February 27, 1988. Although the changes to the cast and writers were minimal, the season was cut short due to the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike. Production During a dress rehearsal for the season premiere, a fire broke out near Studio 8H and was planned to be postponed. However, episode host Steve Martin pushed the cast to carry on with the show, making the Steve Martin/Sting episode the only episode without a dress rehearsal. On March 7, the Writers Guild of America went on strike. The strike continued until August, thus cutting the season short at 13 episodes. Gilda Radner had been scheduled to host the season finale in the spring. Cast Cast roster Repertory players *Dana Carvey *Nora Dunn *Phil Hartman *Jan Hooks *Victoria Jackson *Jon Lovitz *Dennis Miller *Kevin Nealon Featured players * A. Whitney Brown ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saturday Night Live Season 12
The twelfth season of ''Saturday Night Live'', an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between October 11, 1986 and May 23, 1987. History When the 1986-1987 season began, only Jon Lovitz, Nora Dunn, Dennis Miller, and featured player A. Whitney Brown returned as cast members. Michaels went back to his original tactic of assembling a strong ensemble of relative unknowns, led by Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, Jan Hooks, Victoria Jackson, and Kevin Nealon. The first show of the 1986–1987 season opened with Madonna, host of the previous season opener, telling the audience that the entire 1985–1986 season had been a "horrible, horrible dream". Carvey's Church Lady character debuted in this episode. Hartman's send-up of President Ronald Reagan kickstarted the most fruitful and successful period of political parody on ''SNL''. Carvey's widely remembered impression of then Vice President George H. W. Bush debuted in the following season. Other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Daniels
Gregory Martin Daniels (born June 13, 1963) is an American screenwriter, television producer, and director. He has worked on several television series, including writing for ''Saturday Night Live'' and ''The Simpsons'', adapting '' The Office'' for the United States, and co-creating '' Parks and Recreation'' and ''King of the Hill''. Daniels attended Harvard University, where he befriended and began collaborating with Conan O'Brien. His first writing credit was for '' Not Necessarily the News'', before he was laid off because of budget cuts. He joined the writing staff of ''The Simpsons'' during its fifth season. He wrote several classic episodes, including " Secrets of a Successful Marriage", " Lisa's Wedding" and " Bart Sells His Soul" and supervised " 22 Short Films About Springfield". He left ''The Simpsons'' to co-create another long-running animated series, ''King of the Hill'', with Mike Judge. The show ran thirteen years before its cancellation in 2009. During the run of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonnie And Terry Turner
Bonnie and Terry Turner (born August 28, 1940, and December 11, 1947) are an American husband-and-wife team of screenwriters and producers. They are best known for creating the sitcoms ''3rd Rock from the Sun'' and ''That '70s Show'', and the 1992 film Wayne's World. Bonnie Turner is currently on the board of jurors for the Peabody Awards. History Bonnie and Terry Turner were part of a 1980s Atlanta comedy troupe whose members often appeared on the WTBS comedy TV show '' Tush''. They also worked as feature writers for (no relation) Ted Turner's new (at that time) CNN spinoff CNN Headline News. In the mid-1980s, they produced the WTBS Sunday morning magazine show ''Good News'' with host Liz Wickersham. Another comedy troupe member and good friend, Jan Hooks, after appearing in ''Pee-wee's Big Adventure'', landed a spot on ''Saturday Night Live ''Saturday Night Live'' (''SNL'') is an American Late night television in the United States, late-night live television, live ske ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Smigel
Robert Smigel (born February 7, 1960) is an American actor, comedian, writer, director, producer, and puppeteer A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object called a puppet to create the illusion that the puppet is alive. The puppet is often shaped like a human, animal, or legendary creature. The puppeteer may be visible to or hidden from the ..., known for his ''Saturday Night Live'' "TV Funhouse" cartoon shorts and as the puppeteer and voice behind Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. He also co-wrote the first two Hotel Transylvania, ''Hotel Transylvania'' films, ''You Don't Mess with the Zohan'', and ''Leo (2023 American film), Leo'', all starring Adam Sandler. Early life Robert Smigel was born in New York City, to Lucia and Irwin Smigel, an aesthetic dentist, innovator and philanthropist. He is Jews, Jewish and frequently went to Jewish summer camp. He attended Cornell University, studying pre-dental, and graduated from New York University's New York University Coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosie Shuster
Rosie Shuster (born June 19, 1946) is a Canadian-born comedy writer and actress. She was a writer for ''Saturday Night Live'' during the 1970s and 1980s. Early and personal life Shuster was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to Ruth (''née'' Burstyn), an interior designer, and Frank Shuster, of the Wayne and Shuster comedy duo. She is a cousin of ''Superman'' co-creator Joe Shuster. She is of Jewish descent. Shuster was married to ''Saturday Night Live'' creator, Lorne Michaels, from 1967 to 1980. The pair first met in junior high school, when Michaels, born Lorne Lipowitz, followed her home hoping to meet her famous father. Together Shuster and Michaels wrote and performed comedy sketches through high school, summer camp, and college. They began their TV career on '' The Hart and Lorne Terrific Hour'' show for Canadian TV on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Appearing on the show were Dan Aykroyd and Gilda Radner, among others. Shuster and Michaels moved to Los A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herb Sargent
Herbert Sargent (born Supowitz; July 15, 1923 – May 6, 2005) was an American television writer, a Television producer, producer for such comedy shows as ''The Tonight Show'' and ''Saturday Night Live'', and a screenwriter (''Bye Bye Braverman''). During his tenure at ''Saturday Night Live'', he and Chevy Chase created Weekend Update, the longest-running sketch in the show's history, and one of the longest-running sketches on television. Biography He was born Herbert Supowitz in Philadelphia on July 15, 1923. He was the older brother of Academy Awards, Academy Award-winning screenwriter Alvin Sargent. Raised in Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania, he studied architecture at Penn State University before serving with the United States Army Air Forces Air Transport Command (United States Air Force), Air Transport Command in the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II, Pacific Theater during World War II. He moved to Los Angeles and graduated from UCLA. Sargent then moved to New York C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorne Michaels
Lorne Michaels (born Lorne David Lipowitz; November 17, 1944) is a Canadian and American television writer and film producer. He created and produced ''Saturday Night Live'' (1975–1980, 1985–present) and produced the ''Late Night (franchise), Late Night'' series (since 1993), ''The Kids in the Hall (TV series), The Kids in the Hall'' (from 1989 to 1995), and ''The Tonight Show'' (since 2014). He has received 21 Primetime Emmy Awards from 106 nominations, holding the record as the most nominated individual in the award show's history. Early life Lorne David Lipowitz was born to a Jewish family in Toronto, Ontario, on November 17, 1944, to Florence () (1915–2001) and Abraham Lipowitz (1908–1959), who worked as a furrier. Several sources incorrectly state that he was born on a kibbutz in the then-Mandatory Palestine, British mandate of Palestine, and that his Jews, Jewish family immigrated to Toronto, Ontario, when he was an infant. Michaels and his two younger siblings w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Meyer
George Meyer (born 1956) is an United States, American producer and writer. Meyer is best known for his work on ''The Simpsons'', where he served as a scriptwriter and gag writer (for which he is credited as a producer) and led the show's communal rewriting process for much of its earlier run. He has been publicly credited with "thoroughly shap[ing] ... the comedic sensibility" of the show. Raised in Tucson, Meyer attended Harvard University. There, after becoming president of the ''Harvard Lampoon'', he graduated in 1978 with a degree in biochemistry. Abandoning plans to attend medical school, Meyer attempted to make money through dog racing but failed after two months. After a series of short-term jobs he was hired in 1981 by David Letterman, on the advice of two of Meyer's ''Harvard Lampoon'' cowriters, to join the writing team of his show ''Late Night with David Letterman''. Meyer left after two seasons and went on to write for ''The New Show'', ''Not Necessarily the News'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Handey
Jack Handey (born February 25, 1949) is an American humorist. He is best known for his "Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey", a large body of Surrealism, surrealistic one-liner jokes, as well as his "Fuzzy Memories" and "My Big Thick Novel" shorts, and for his deadpan delivery. Although many assume otherwise, Handey is a real person, not a pen name or character. Career Handey's earliest writing job was for a newspaper, the ''San Antonio Express-News''. He lost the job after writing an article that, in his words, "offended local car dealerships". His first comic writing was with comedian Steve Martin. According to Martin, Handey got a job writing for ''Saturday Night Live'' (SNL) after Martin introduced him to the show's creator, Lorne Michaels. For several years, Handey worked on other television projects: the Canadian Sketch comedy, sketch series ''Bizarre (TV series), Bizarre'' in 1980, the 1980 Steve Martin television special ''Comedy Is Not Pretty!'', and Lorne Michaels's short-lived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Franken
Alan Stuart Franken (born May 21, 1951) is an American politician, comedian, and actor who served from 2009 to 2018 as a United States senator from Minnesota. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he worked as an entertainer, appearing on television and in films, before entering politics. Franken first gained fame as a writer and performer on the NBC sketch comedy series ''Saturday Night Live'', where he worked three stints. He first served as a writer for the show from 1975 to 1980, and returned from 1985 to 1995 as a writer and, briefly, a cast member. After his career in the entertainment industry, Franken became a Liberalism in the United States, liberal political activist, hosting a radio show and writing satirical books scrutinizing the American right. Though initially dismissed as a novelty candidate due to his background in comedy, Franken was elected to the United States Senate in 2008 United States Senate election in Minnesota, 2008, def ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Downey (comedian)
James Woodward Downey (born 1952) is an American comedy writer, producer and actor. Downey wrote for over 30 seasons of ''Saturday Night Live'', making him the longest tenured writer in the show's history. ''SNL'' creator Lorne Michaels called Downey the "best political humorist alive" while Conan O'Brien said he is "''the'' great comedy writer that we all revere." Early life and education Downey was born in Berkeley, California, and grew up in Joliet, Illinois. After graduating from Joliet Catholic High School, he entered Harvard University, where he wrote for the ''Harvard Lampoon'' and later became its president. He graduated from Harvard in 1974 with a degree in Russian. Downey is not related to ''SNL'' alumnus Robert Downey Jr., whose uncle James B. Downey has been confused with Jim Downey in the past. Writing In 1976, Downey joined the ''Saturday Night Live'' writing staff as its youngest member. He was among the first ''Harvard Lampoon'' writers to write for televisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
