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Saturday Night Live (SNL) is an American late-night live sketch comedy variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Michaels and Dick Ebersol that airs on NBC. The show’s premiere was hosted by George Carlin on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title NBC’s Saturday Night. The show’s comedy sketches, which often parody contemporary American culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers the opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, with featured performances by a musical guest.

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25 Aug, 2017

SNL McGregor news skit

Conor McGregorSkit0 Comments

Saturday Night Live takes on the McGregor-Mayweather fight in a news skit.

I am going to drive Mayweather out of the ring, the way St. Patrick drove all the snakes out of Ireland: piss drunk, while screaming something about Jesus. All it’s going to take me to win is one punch!..I’m going to fight the Irish way, get me arse beat down, and then just get back up, and wander into the pub like nothing happened.

https://youtu.be/48hGClz_c00

10 Dec, 2016

SNL spoof

Alex MoffatConor McGregorSkit0 Comments

McGregor is spoofed on Saturday Night Live. With WWE wrestler John Cena on board as the episode’s guest host, McGregor is played by SNL’s Moffat in a skit called Where’d Your Money Go?

17 Oct, 2015

Democrat debate skit

Alec BaldwinJon RudnitskyKate McKinnonKyle MooneyLarry DavidSkit0 Comments

Saturday Night Live satirizes the Democratic debate in a old open skit. David plays Bernie Sanders, while Baldwin plays Jim Webb. Hillary Clinton and Lincoln Chafee are played by SNL regulars McKinnon and Mooney. Anderson Cooper is played by Rudnitsky. David (as Sanders):

I don’t have a super PAC. I don’t even have a backpack.

Democratic Debate Cold Open - SNL

3 Oct, 2015

SNL bartender skit

Hillary ClintonKate McKinnonSkit0 Comments

In a skit on SNL, Clinton (McKinnon) confides her concerns about the 2016 presidential race to her bartender, Val (Clinton), and sings Lean On Me.

Clinton: I’m just so darned bummed, all anyone wants to talk about is Donald Trump.
Val: Donald Trump? Isn’t he the one that says ‘you’re all losers’?

https://youtu.be/6Jh2n5ki0KE