“Saturday Night Live” and Weekend Update
2006; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 31; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00947679.2006.12062688
ISSN2641-2071
Autores Tópico(s)Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media
Resumo“Saturday Night Live” is a television institution that has played a pivotal role in cultivating American television satire with its main target for the last thirty years being politics and politicians, particularly on its Weekend Update segment. Using interviews with some of those involved with “SNL” as well as other primary sources, this article examines how this “newscast” was developed over its first five years, with attention paid to its role and purpose, how its material was selected and written, and the limitations placed on it by censors and the nature of the show. This shows how Weekend Update expanded the parameters of what is allowable on network television as well as how those putting together this segment had to pay close attention to the traditional news media, resulting in the “SNL” office in many ways resembling a real media newsroom.
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