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Not Necessarily the News was a satirical sketch comedy series that ran on HBO from 1983 to 1990. It featured sketches, parody news items, commercial parodies, and humorous bits made from overdubbing or editing actual news footage. It was based on the British series, Not the Nine O'Clock News. Not Necessarily the News was also the birthplace of Rich Hall's sniglets. For other uses, see HBO (disambiguation). ... Not the Nine OClock News is a comedy television programme that was shown on the BBC, broadcast from 1979 to 1982. ... A sniglet is defined as a word that should be in the dictionary, but isnt. While Rich Hall invented the word sniglet itself, sniglets are actually a long-running popular joke in which people make up their own humorous words to describe things or concepts that have no official...


It starred:

  • Anne Bloom, as Frosty Kimelman
  • Danny Breen, as Steve Casper
  • Rich Hall, who did a regular feature on "sniglets".
  • Mitchell Laurance, as news reporter Pete Kimelman.
  • Stuart Pankin, as anchorman Bob Charles of the news team.
  • Lucy Webb, as Helen St. Thomas
  • Jan Hooks, (season 1&2)
  • Annabelle Gurwitch, later seasons, co-anchor alongside Tom Parks

NNTN was Conan O'Brien and Greg Daniels' first professional television writing gig. Rich Hall (born 1954 in Waxhaw, North Carolina) is an American comedian and writer. ... A sniglet is defined as a word that should be in the dictionary, but isnt. While Rich Hall invented the word sniglet itself, sniglets are actually a long-running popular joke in which people make up their own humorous words to describe things or concepts that have no official... Stuart Pankin, with Charles Nelson Reilly and Dom DeLuise To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Lucy Webb is a young British child actor. ... Jan Hooks in 1988 Jan Hooks (born April 23, 1957 in Decatur, Georgia) is an American actress and comedian best known for her work on NBCs Saturday Night Live, on which she appeared from 1986 to 1991. ... Annabelle Gurwitch (Born November 4, 1961 in Mobile, Alabama) is an American comedic actress best known for being the original hostess of TBSs Dinner and a Movie. ... This articles trivia section has too much trivia. ... Greg Daniels is a well known television comedy writer. ...


The show's theme song was the instrumental bridge of Eric Clapton's cover of "Motherless Children". The famous Clapton is God graffiti Eric Patrick Clapton CBE (born March 30, 1945), nicknamed Slowhand, is a Grammy Award winning English guitarist, singer and composer, who is one of the most respected and influential musicians of the 20th century[1], garnering an unprecedented three inductions into the Rock and...


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Not Necessarily the News - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (176 words)
Not Necessarily the News was a satirical sketch comedy series that ran on HBO from 1983 to 1990.
Not Necessarily the News was also the birthplace of Rich Hall's sniglets.
NNTN was Conan O'Brien and Greg Daniel's first professional television writing gig.
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