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43 unusual facts about Saturday Night Live


A cause des garçons

"A cause des garçons" (Yelle version) was also used as the dance song in the "Les Jeunes de Paris" skit on the 11 November 2011 episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by Emma Stone.

A Good Old Fashioned Orgy

Huyck eventually saw Sudeikis singing karaoke at a Saturday Night Live after party and felt he would fit the role.

Australia the Lucky Cunt

The EP was re-released in November 1993 under the title "Censored Due To Legal Advice", with new cover art depicting the infamous incident where Sinéad O'Connor tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II (the image of the Pope being doctored to read "TISM") on Saturday Night Live.

Autofellatio

In the 26th season (2000–2001) of the popular Saturday Night Live comedy show Will Ferrell plays a character who joins a yoga class with the sole purpose to be able to fellate himself as a part of reaching Samadhi.

BassOmatic

The name is explained in this comment from the source code: "BassOmatic gets its name from an old Dan Aykroyd Saturday Night Live skit involving a blender and a whole fish. The BassOmatic algorithm does to data what the original BassOmatic did to the fish."

Beefsteak Charlie's

The restaurant was parodied in a 1980 Saturday Night Live skit as "Pre-Chew Charlie's", ostensibly a steakhouse where the waiters come to your table and chew your food for you.

Betty Boop's Trial

Excerpts of the courtroom scene were shown in the February 21, 1976 edition of Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live, being passed off as an "Artist's Rendering" of the week's developments in the Patty Hearst trial.

Bob Shreve

In 1975, the show moved to WKRC-TV, then Cincinnati's ABC affiliate, with the new Saturday Night Live-influenced title, The Past Prime Playhouse. Schoenling no longer sponsored the show, which gave way to new advertisers like LaRosa's Pizza, Hemsath Sound Centers, and Mayor's Jewelers.

C. F. Hathaway Company

The "Hathaway man" reappeared in a 1993 sketch on Saturday Night Live, where he was played by Phil Hartman sans moustache.

Carnival Ride

She also appeared on several shows to promote her album including The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Saturday Night Live, Live With Regis and Kelly, The Early Show, American Idol, Good Morning America, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, The View, and at the Grand Ole Opry.

Cheeburger Cheeburger

When Cheeburger Cheeburger opened a restaurant in Glenview, Illinois, they were sued by Billy Goat Tavern, which had served as the inspiration for the original Olympia Cafe Saturday Night Live parody.

Ditech

Saturday Night Live parodied the popularity and ubiquity of Ditech's earlier advertising tag.

Eet

Spektor performed this song along with "The Calculation" on Saturday Night Live on October 10, 2009.

Electric Café

The track gained some exposure in the United States when it was used slightly sped up as the theme song for "Sprockets", the German television spoof by Mike Myers on Saturday Night Live.

Francis X Pavy

As a result, the print can frequently be seen on Saturday Night Live.

Gary Windo

In addition to this he did incidental music for Saturday Night Live" and gave music lessons famous for running over time due to his helpful nature and unbounded enthusiasm.

Grace, Too

In 1995, The Tragically Hip performed the song on Saturday Night Live.

Herb Sargent

Herbert Sargent (July 15, 1923 – May 6, 2005) was an American television writer, a producer for such comedy shows as The Tonight Show and Saturday Night Live, and a screenwriter (Bye Bye Braverman).

Home Hardware

On January 11, 2003, Home Hardware received unexpected worldwide exposure, when a T-shirt worn by Avril Lavigne during a performance on Saturday Night Live featured her hometown of Napanee, Ontario and the local hardware store there.

Hunter Carson

He made his first national appearance in October 1976, at the age of nine months, when his mother hosted "Saturday Night Live."

I'm Amazed

They performed this song along with "Evil Urges" on Saturday Night Live on May 10, 2008.

James Signorelli

James Signorelli is an American director and cinematographer, best known for his work on the TV show Saturday Night Live.

Keep the Car Running

The band performed the song during their 24 February 2007 appearance on Saturday Night Live.

Le Fil

In 2010, the track "Ta douleur" was featured in the Saturday Night Live sketch "Les Jeunes de Paris."

Little Superstar

The video has been featured on YouTube, in Tom Anderson's bulletins on Myspace, on the E! TV show The Soup, the MSNBC shows Countdown with Keith Olbermann and Tucker Carlson, G4TV's Attack of the Show! and elsewhere, as well as having been parodied on Saturday Night Live.

Manic Panic

The NYC store's front and signage are featured prominently in a shot in the opening montage of Saturday Night Live's 1980-81 season.

Mark Wohlers

Wohlers was one of three Atlanta Braves to appear on Saturday Night Live when he made a cameo appearance alongside teammates Gerald Williams and Pedro Borbón, Jr. on the December 13, 1997, episode hosted by Helen Hunt.

Mr. Bill's Real Life Adventures

Although starring actors, the "Bills" were shown to be a "miniature" family, with many of the jokes revolving around the characters' small size and the challenges they faced living in a "large" human world, as well as scenarios where Mr. Bill is subjected to the various abusive situations the original Saturday Night Live character was best known for.

Peter McManus Cafe

McManus' has been featured in a number of films and television programs, including Highlander, Radio Days, Keeping the Faith, Seinfeld, Law & Order and Saturday Night Live.

Pēteris Skudra

Skudra was mentioned on Saturday Night Live in an episode that was filmed on March 19, 1999.

QuietMan

QuietMan has worked on campaigns for Pepsi Max, FedEx, M&M’s and GE, as well as ongoing animation and VFX work for American mainstays like Disney, CBS’s Early Show, Jim Henson’s Muppets and Saturday Night Live.

Right Between the Ears

Beginning the late 1980s, however, full-length radio plays were de-emphasized in favor of Saturday Night Live-style comedy sketches, and by 1990 the show became an all-comedy offering, broadcast regularly over KANU-FM, the NPR station licensed to the University of Kansas in Lawrence.

Seven minutes in heaven

In 2011, Saturday Night Live writer Mike O'Brien introduced a comedy routine called '7 Minutes in Heaven with Mike O'Brien' wherein he interviews celebrities in a closet, and closes by trying to kiss the celebrity.

Studio audience

For comedy television shows like All in the Family, Saturday Night Live and Happy Days (for indoor scenes), the use of a live studio audiences essentially turns them into de facto stage productions while shooting individual scenes, with minor problems like the audience applauding when favorite performers enter the stage.

The Chieftains 8

The band performed "If I Had Maggie In The Wood" on Saturday Night Live in March 1979.

The Hidden Hitler

The Saturday Night Live character "Gay Hitler" possibly based on Machtan's book at Saturday Night Live characters appearing on Weekend Update

UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff

Originally written four years earlier for a failed Saturday Night Live replacement titled Welcome to the Fun Zone, this song is played at the beginning of every "Weird Al" concert.

Wharton Follies

In addition to a live stage show featuring the school's most talented students, Follies writes, shoots and edits its own Saturday Night Live-style video features for public consumption.

What'd I Say

Charles later spoofed this double standard on the television comedy show Saturday Night Live in 1977.

WLBZ

In 2012, WLBZ's station logo was immortalized in a running sketch series for Saturday Night Live called Maine Justice, a parody of courtroom shows featuring a judge and a bailiff with Louisiana accents who "try" to act like New Englanders.

WMPA TV

All three shows borrowed material liberally from such television programs as “Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In,” “Saturday Night Live,” "The Benny Hill Show," "Late Night with David Letterman," and “Hee Haw.”

Yemi A.D.

Choreography for Saturday Night Live Kanye West performance of Power and Runaway - the act was named as best live act in history of the SNL TV show – claimed by SNL senior producer

Saturday Night Live – “Runaway” & “Power” performances for Kanye West (2010)


A Futile and Stupid Gesture

As the book recounts, at that time the National Lampoon's performers included John Belushi, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase and Gilda Radner, all of whom subsequently went on to appear on Saturday Night Live and have careers in other media including film.

Ashley Cleveland

As part of John Hiatt's band, she has also made several widely seen television appearances including, Austin City Limits, Late Night with David Letterman, The Arsenio Hall Show and Saturday Night Live.

Bill Wendell

Wendell also appeared as a TV announcer in the movie, Mr. Saturday Night, which starred Billy Crystal as comedian Buddy Young, Jr., a character Crystal originally created when he was a regular on Saturday Night Live.

C U When U Get There

Jonah Hill and the cast of Saturday Night Live covered the song during Hill's hosting appearance on March 10, 2012.

Don Lapre

David Spade appeared in two sketches parodying Don Lapre on Saturday Night Live.

Ellis E. Williams

In 1991, he made his first television appearance (since SNL in 1980), on an episode of Law & Order, as Ray Bell, then he appeared in numerous films: Hangin' with the Homeboys and Strictly Business, opposite Halle Berry, Anne-Marie Johnson, Tommy Davidson, and Samuel L. Jackson.

Federal Reserve Note

The popularity of the Saturday Night Live skit "Lazy Sunday" has led to $10 notes sometimes being referred to as "Hamiltons".

George H. W. Bush vomiting incident

Footage of the President vomiting was broadcast on the ABC network, and Saturday Night Live presented a parody skit of the incident in the form of an Oliver Stone conspiracy movie.

How to Be a Megastar Live!

As an added bonus, Saturday Night Live member Fred Armisen participated in the concert, first in Rock Manual Infomercial and later in "Mono: Save the Boxy TVs," a special feature on the DVD.

ITN World News

Secondly, many popular programmes from NBC began appearing on the channel: comedy programmes from NBC included The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and Saturday Night Live; news programmes from NBC included Dateline NBC, The Today Show, and NBC Nightly News With Tom Brokaw.

Jesse Falcon

Since 1998, Falcon has been a featured performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, which helped launch the careers of comedians like Saturday Night Live's Amy Poehler and The Daily Show 's Rob Corddry. Falcon also performs with other comedy groups such as Mother, The Chipperton Family, Telethon, and Girl Crush 2040. He has also appeared in the comedic short film Running with Scissors.

Jim Conroy

He later worked on his first major role as Kenny in the animated Kenny the Shark for Discovery Kids, as well as Disney Channel's Mr. Pig & Mr. Duck, and made special appearances on Saturday Night Live show in 2005.

Marvin Goldhar

Goldhar also played roles in live-action such as Mogul in Mafia Princess, Gareth Williamson in Night Heat, Grandpa Maurice in The Zack Files, Ron Morrow in Hot Money, Detective #1 in A Deadly Business, Larry Sr. in Big Deal, Burt Horowitz in Deadline, Phil King in The Last Polka, Harry in Club Land as well as a guest star on Saturday Night Live.

Mike Drucker

During his time as an intern on Saturday Night Live his nerdy mannerisms were noticed by writers and he was subsequently parodied by Zach Braff in a Bronx Beat sketch.

National Republican Trust Political Action Committee

On November 1, 2008, just days before the United States presidential election between Barack Obama and John McCain, NBC ran an NRT anti-Obama ad featuring Jeremiah Wright during a broadcast of Saturday Night Live.

One Leg Too Few

Cook and Moore also performed the sketch in their 1973 stage show Behind the Fridge (retitled Good Evening! in the USA), and also gave standalone performances on various occasions, including the 1965 Royal Variety Performance, a 1976 episode of Saturday Night Live, and the 1989 charity show The Secret Policeman's Biggest Ball.

Patricia Schroeder

Schroeder was lampooned on Saturday Night Live in 1988 in a skit where Nora Dunn, acting as Schroeder, repeatedly burst into tears while moderating a Democratic primary debate.

Red Defender

The Red Defender character was created in 2006 by animator J. J. Sedelmaier (known for his work on Saturday Night Live’s TV Funhouse) for the Advertising Council's blood donation campaign.

Robin Byrd

The Robin Byrd Show was parodied on Saturday Night Live in a series of skits airing in 1997 and 1998; Byrd was played by Cheri Oteri.

Sarah Palin interviews with Katie Couric

The interviews were later parodied on Saturday Night Live, with Tina Fey as Palin.

Shuckey Duckey

He was parodied on Saturday Night Live by Bobby Moynihan as "Slappy Pappy," with the catchphrase "Slappy Pappy Wink Wink."

The Reality of My Surroundings

Fishbone experienced a large growth in concert tickets and record sales during this period, making two memorable television appearances: performing "Sunless Saturday" and "Everyday Sunshine" on Saturday Night Live, and "Everyday Sunshine" on The Arsenio Hall Show.

The X-Presidents

"The X-Presidents" is a NBC/Saturday Night Live "Saturday TV Funhouse" cartoon created by Robert Smigel and animated by J. J. Sedelmaier Productions.

Who's Gonna Save My Soul

A couple sits at a booth in a diner, while the woman (Friday Night Lights star Aasha Davis) breaks up with her boyfriend (Saturday Night Live writer and The Lonely Island band member Jorma Taccone).