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Nearly fifty years after Saturday Night Live was first broadcast, a film has been made about the minutes leading up to the broadcast of that first episode

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Sep 10, 2024
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I think that it is fair to say that Saturday Night Live is an American institution, and it is also fair to say that, with hindsight, it already was before the 1970s were over.

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