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08-29-2023-1550 - DRAFT (THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, Saturday Night Live, ETC.)

Saturday Night Live
Logo used since October 1, 2022
Also known asNBC's Saturday Night
(1975–1977)
Saturday Night Live '80
(1980)
Genre
Created byLorne Michaels
Written byList of Saturday Night Live writers
Directed by
StarringList of Saturday Night Live cast members
Narrated byDon Pardo
Mel Brandt
Bill Hanrahan
Darrell Hammond
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons48
No. of episodes948 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producersLorne Michaels
(1975–1980; 1985–present)
Jean Doumanian (1980–1981)
Dick Ebersol (1981–1985)
Production locationsStudio 8H, NBC Studios, New York City
Running time93 minutes (with commercials)
Production company
Other studios:
Release
Original networkNBC
Original releaseOctober 11, 1975 –
present
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Saturday Night Live (often abbreviated to SNL) is an American late-night live television sketch comedy, political satire, and variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol that airs on NBC and Peacock. Michaels currently serves as the program's showrunner. 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. An episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!", properly beginning the show. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live

Poster for an 1879 production on Broadway, featuring Stuart Robson and William H. Crane.

The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's early plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play. It has been adapted for opera, stage, screen and musical theatre numerous times worldwide. In the centuries following its premiere, the play's title has entered the popular English lexicon as an idiom for "an event or series of events made ridiculous by the number of errors that were made throughout".[1]

Set in the Greek city of Ephesus, The Comedy of Errors tells the story of two sets of identical twins who were accidentally separated at birth. Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant, Dromio of Syracuse, arrive in Ephesus, which turns out to be the home of their twin brothers, Antipholus of Ephesus and his servant, Dromio of Ephesus. When the Syracusans encounter the friends and families of their twins, a series of wild mishaps based on mistaken identities lead to wrongful beatings, a near-seduction, the arrest of Antipholus of Ephesus, and false accusations of infidelity, theft, madness, and demonic possession

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Comedy_of_Errors

 

 

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