Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live (abbreviatit as SNL) is an American late-nicht live televeesion sketch comedy an variety shaw creatit bi Lorne Michaels an developed bi Dick Ebersol.

Saturday Night Live
Kent as an aw	NBC's Saturday Night (1975–1977) Saturday Night Live '80 (1980)
Genre	Variety show
Creautit bi	Lorne Michaels
Written bi	See Leet o Saturday Night Live writers
Directit bi	Dave Wilson (1975–1986, 1989–1995) Additional directors: Paul Miller (1986–1989) Beth McCarthy-Miller (1995–2006) Don Roy King (2006–present)
Starnin	See Leet o Saturday Night Live cast members
Narratit bi	Don Pardo (1975–1981, 1982–2014) Darrell Hammond (2014–present) Additional narrators: Bill Hanrahan (1981) Mel Brandt (1981–1982)
Kintra o oreegin	Unitit States
Oreeginal leid(s)	Inglis
No. o series	49
No. o episodes	968 (Leet o episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Lorne Michaels (1975–80, 1985–present) Additional producers: Jean Doumanian (1980–81) Dick Ebersol (1981–85)
Location(s)	NBC Studios New York, New York
Lenth	93 minutes (with commercials)
Production company(s)	Broadway Video (1981–present) Additional studios: NBC (1975–1982) Dolphin Productions (1975–82) NBC Productions (1982–96) NBC Studios (1996–99) SNL Studios (1999–present)
Release
Oreeginal network	NBC
Pictur format	480i (4:3 SDTV) (1975–2005) 1080i (16:9 HDTV) (2005–present)
Oreeginal release	October 11, 1975 – present
Chronology
Related shaws	TV Funhouse Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday SNL Vintage
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