- Performing Arts, Saturday night live (Television program), Nonfiction, Television comedies
WHEN A YOUNG WRITER named Lorne Michaels talked NBC executives into taking a chance on a new weekend late-night comedy series, nobody really knew what to expect-not even Michaels. But Saturday Night Live, launched in 1975 and still thriving today, would change the face of television.
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Nostalgic, epic, comic and earnest.
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- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Tom Shales, James A. Miller
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 594
- Publisher
- Little, Brown, Back Bay Books, Little, Brown and Company
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780316045827
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