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Saturday Night Live - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (5792 words) |
 | Although SNL is well-known as the launchpad for many successful careers, a few cast members have died tragically young. |
 | SNL is one of the few shows on television to have its in- and off-season reruns aired out of its original broadcast sequence. |
 | Over the years SNL has almost always been broadcast live in the Eastern and Central time zones, in spite of the expletive spoken by Charles Rocket in 1981. |
| SNL - definition of SNL in Encyclopedia (2900 words) |
 | Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late-night ninety-minute live comedy-variety show which has been broadcasted every Saturday night on the American NBC network since 1975. |
 | SNL's ever-changing cast list is a veritable 'Who's Who' of comedy and the show has been the launching place for some of the biggest American comedy stars of the last thirty years. |
 | SNL was on the brink of cancellation when major changes to the cast in 1986 allowed the show to quickly redeem itself, and garnered what is considered by many some of the finest talent—with new stars Dana Carvey and Phil Hartman—since the show's heyday. |