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SNL to get website — what took so long?

by Mathew on October 14, 2008 · View Comments

According to a report at Broadcasting & Cable, the tall foreheads at Saturday Night Live — including Canadian-born creator Lorne “Dr. Evil” Michaels — are in talks with NBC about setting up a standalone site for the show, one that would feature clips as well as out-takes, video of rehearsals and so on. This seems [...]

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Behind the missing SNL bailout video

by Mathew on October 8, 2008 · View Comments

One of the highlights of last weekend’s Saturday Night Live episode — apart from the brilliant (as always) Sarah Palin impersonation by Tina Fey — was a clip in which George Bush, Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank talk about the Wall Street bailout and who is to blame, and then a succession of pathetic characters [...]

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In an interview with the New York Observer, Lorne Michaels — the creator of Saturday Night Live and proud product of The Great White North — says that as far as he’s concerned, YouTube is the best thing since TVs were invented (hat tip to Techdirt for the link). “I think that YouTube is great, [...]

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NBC should make Andy Samberg CEO

by Mathew on December 21, 2006 · View Comments

Like a lot of TV networks, NBC was cruising along happily ignoring the Internet as much as possible, until the “Lazy Sunday” video clip from Saturday Night Live hit YouTube almost exactly a year ago and caused what I like to refer to as a “holy crap” moment in the executive suites of the broadcaster. [...]

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