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Saturday Night Live Season 11
The eleventh season of '' Saturday Night Live'', an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between November 9, 1985, and May 24, 1986. The season marked Lorne Michaels' return to ''SNL'' as showrunner after a five-year hiatus. Michaels hired new cast members, but instead of his usual approach of recruiting from comedy clubs and improv groups, he cast established names such as Randy Quaid, Anthony Michael Hall, Robert Downey Jr., and Joan Cusack. Due to their relative inexperience in comedy, the new cast failed to connect with audiences. The show also featured a frustrated writing crew (including future '' Simpsons'' writers Jon Vitti, George Meyer, and John Swartzwelder), who didn't know how to write sketches for such an eclectic cast. The season was plagued by harsh criticism, low ratings, and rumors of a possible cancellation. NBC president Brandon Tartikoff planned to cancel ''SNL'' after its season finale in May 1986; Michaels, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saturday Night Live Season 10
The tenth season of '' Saturday Night Live'', an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between October 6, 1984, and April 13, 1985. This was the only season to feature renowned comedians Billy Crystal, Martin Short, and Christopher Guest as cast members, and became known as the "All-Star" cast season. Only 17 episodes were produced due to a writers' strike and budget constraints. This was the final season of the Ebersol-run era. Opening credits This season also featured a new opening sequence produced by Charlex (who also created The Cars' " You Might Think" video earlier in 1984), depicting the ''SNL'' cast as giants in and around New York City landmarks. Cast During the previous season, Eddie Murphy left the show midseason. Because of Murphy's departure, Joe Piscopo also left the show because he did not want to do it without Murphy. Dick Ebersol fired Robin Duke, Brad Hall and Tim Kazurinsky. Ebersol and head writer Bob T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saturday Night Live Season 20
The twentieth season of '' Saturday Night Live'' (also branded ''Saturday Night Live 20''), an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between September 24, 1994, and May 13, 1995. Much like the 1980–1981 season and the 1985–1986 season, NBC worried over ''SNLs decline in quality (and in the ratings) and initially decided that now would be the best time to pull the plug on the show once and for all. According to the prime time special ''Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation'', Lorne Michaels credits this season as the closest he's ever been to being fired. In the end, the cast member firings and crew turnover resulting from this season represented the biggest involvement into the show's affairs by NBC executives since the 1980–1981 season and the biggest cast overhaul since the 1985–1986 season. This season saw the deaths of two ''SNL'' alumni: season 11 cast member Danitra Vance (who died of breast cancer) and "Not R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Novello
Donald Andrew Novello (born January 1, 1943) is an American actor, comedian, singer, writer, film director and producer. He is best known for his work on NBC's ''Saturday Night Live'' from 1978 to 1980, and again from 1985 to 1986, often as the character Father Guido Sarducci. He appeared as Sarducci in many subsequent television shows, including '' Married... with Children'', ''Blossom'', ''It's Garry Shandling's Show'', ''Unhappily Ever After'', ''Square Pegs'', and ''The Colbert Report'', and in the 1980 documentary film ''Gilda Live''. He is also the voice of Vincenzo "Vinny" Santorini in the franchise of '' Atlantis: The Lost Empire''. Early life Novello was born in Ashtabula, Ohio, the son of Eleanor Eileen (née Finnerty), a nurse, and Augustine Joseph Novello, a physician. He is of Italian and Irish descent. The family moved to Lorain, Ohio, when Don was a young boy. In 1961, he graduated from Lorain High School. He subsequently enrolled at the University of Dayton and g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Sweeney
Terry Sweeney is an American artist, actor, and writer. He was a writer and cast member of ''Saturday Night Live'' in the 1980s, co-wrote the 1989 film ''Shag'', and has written for the television ''series MADtv'', ''Hype'', and ''Tripping the Rift''. Early life and career Terry Sweeney was born in Queens, New York and raised in Massapequa Park, New York as the younger of two children to Terrence, a butcher, and Lenore Sweeney. As a child, he was bullied and found solace in books and movie musicals as well as in performing his own Broadway plays. At a young age, his interest in the performing arts grew and he became a star of the high school talent show. He graduated Farmingdale High School in 1969 and attended Middlebury College, where he continued his studies in Spanish and Italian, and graduated in 1973 with a bachelor of arts degree. ''Saturday Night Live'' Sweeney was a regular cast member of ''Saturday Night Live'' (''SNL'') during that program's 1985–86 season. After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Lovitz
Jonathan Michael Lovitz (; born July 21, 1957) is an American actor and comedian. He was a cast member of ''Saturday Night Live'' from 1985 to 1990. Lovitz starred as Jay Sherman in ''The Critic'' and played a baseball scout in ''A League of Their Own''. He has appeared in 20 episodes of ''The Simpsons''. Early life Lovitz was born on July 21, 1957, in the Tarzana neighborhood of Los Angeles, to Harold and Barbara Lovitz. His family is Jewish, and emigrated from Romania, Hungary, and Russia. His paternal grandfather, Feivel Ianculovici, left Romania around 1914. After arriving in the United States, he Americanized his name to Phillip Lovitz. In a 2011 interview, Lovitz described his comedic influences: "When I was 13, I saw Woody Allen's movie ''Take The Money and Run'', and I wanted to be a comedian. Then when I was 16, I saw the movie '' Lenny'', about Lenny Bruce, starring Dustin Hoffman. I thought the movie was so great, and I'd never heard of Lenny, so I went to the record ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Tribune
The ''Chicago Tribune'' is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tribune Publishing. Founded in 1847, and formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" (a slogan for which WGN radio and television are named), it remains the most-read daily newspaper in the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region. It had the sixth-highest circulation for American newspapers in 2017. In the 1850s, under Joseph Medill, the ''Chicago Tribune'' became closely associated with the Illinois politician Abraham Lincoln, and the Republican Party's progressive wing. In the 20th century under Medill's grandson, Robert R. McCormick, it achieved a reputation as a crusading paper with a decidedly more American-conservative anti-New Deal outlook, and its writing reached other markets through family and corporate relationships at the ''New York Daily News'' and the ''Washington Times-Herald.'' The 1960s saw its corporate parent owner, Tribune Company, rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nora Dunn
Nora Dunn (born April 29, 1952) is an American actress and comedian. She was a cast member on the NBC sketch variety TV series ''Saturday Night Live'' from 1985 to 1990, Dr. Reynolds in ''The Nanny'' (1998-1999), and Muriel in ''Home Economics'' (2021-). Early life Dunn was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Margaret (née East), a nurse, and John Dunn, a musician and poet. Her brother is actor Kevin Dunn, and sister is Cathy Zimmerman. She was raised in a Catholic family, and has Irish, English, Scottish, and German ancestry. Career ''Saturday Night Live'' Dunn joined ''SNL'' in 1985 with the return of Lorne Michaels as executive producer. The 1985–1986 season proved to be a ratings disaster, and she was one of only five cast members who was not fired at its end (the others were newcomers Jon Lovitz, A. Whitney Brown, Dennis Miller and longtime featured player Al Franken). Dunn's characters included half of "The Sweeney Sisters" lounge act alongside Jan Hooks, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damon Wayans
Damon Kyle Wayans Sr. (; born September 4, 1960) is an American actor, comedian, producer, and writer. Wayans performed as a comedian and actor throughout the 1980s, including a year long stint on the sketch comedy series ''Saturday Night Live.'' His true breakthrough, however, came as writer and performer on FOX's sketch comedy show ''In Living Color'' from 1990 to 1992, his animated series ''Waynehead'' that ran on the Kids' WB block from 1996 to 1997, and his TV series '' Damon'' (1998). Since then, he has starred in a number of films and television shows, some of which he has co-produced or co-written, including ''Beverly Hills Cop'', ''The Last Boy Scout'', and ''Major Payne'' and the sitcom ''My Wife and Kids''. From 2016 to 2019, he starred as Roger Murtaugh in the television series ''Lethal Weapon''. He is a member of the Wayans family of entertainers. Early life Wayans was born in Harlem in New York City, the son of Elvira Alethia (Green), a homemaker, singer and soci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Miller
Dennis Michael Miller (born November 3, 1953) is an American talk show host, political commentator, sports commentator, actor, and comedian. He was a cast member of ''Saturday Night Live'' from 1985 to 1991, and he subsequently hosted a string of his own talk shows on HBO, CNBC, and also in syndication. From 2007 to 2015, Miller hosted a daily, three-hour, self-titled talk radio program, nationally syndicated by Westwood One. On March 9, 2020, ''Dennis Miller + One'' show, launched on RT America. It ran twice-weekly and featured celebrity interviews. Miller is listed as 21st on Comedy Central's 100 greatest stand-up comedians of all time, and was ranked as the best host of ''SNL''s ''Weekend Update'' by Vulture.com. Early life Miller was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in the suburb of Castle Shannon, Pennsylvania, Castle Shannon. He is of Scottish people, Scottish descent. Miller's parents separated and he was raised by his mother, Norma who was a dietitian at a Baptist nurs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danitra Vance
Danitra Vance (July 13, 1954 – August 21, 1994) was an American comedian and actress, who was a Saturday Night Live cast members, cast member on the NBC sketch comedy show ''Saturday Night Live'' (SNL) during its Saturday Night Live (season 11), eleventh season in 1985. Raised in South Side, Chicago, Chicago's South Side, Vance performed for The Second City, was an "Off-Broadway favorite," and was the first Black woman of the primary ''SNL'' cast and, following Denny Dillon and along with Terry Sweeney, one of the first LGBT members, though she was not Coming out, out to the public during her lifetime. Her comedy and theater work featured themes of social issues, including that of being consistently stereotyped during casting. Throughout her career, she received an Obie Award and an NAACP Image Awards, NAACP Image Award. She also appeared in feature films like ''Sticky Fingers (1988 film), Sticky Fingers'', ''Limit Up'', and ''Jumpin' at the Boneyard''. In 1990, Vance wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baby Boomers
Baby boomers, often shortened to boomers, are the Western demographic cohort following the Silent Generation and preceding Generation X. The generation is often defined as people born from 1946 to 1964, during the mid-20th century baby boom. The dates, the demographic context, and the cultural identifiers may vary by country. The baby boom has been described variously as a "shockwave" and as "the pig in the python". Most baby boomers are children of either the Greatest Generation or the Silent Generation, and are often parents of late Gen Xers and Millennials. Late baby boomers can also be the parents of older members of Generation Z. In the West, boomers' childhoods in the 1950s and 1960s had significant reforms in education, both as part of the ideological confrontation that was the Cold War, and as a continuation of the interwar period. In the 1960s and 1970s, as this relatively large number of young people entered their teens and young adulthood—the oldest turned 18 in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Lampoon's Vacation
''National Lampoon's Vacation'', sometimes referred to as simply ''Vacation'', is a 1983 American road trip comedy film directed by Harold Ramis starring Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Imogene Coca, Randy Quaid, John Candy, and Christie Brinkley in her acting debut with special appearances by Eddie Bracken, Brian Doyle-Murray, Miriam Flynn, James Keach, Eugene Levy and Frank McRae. It tells the story of a family that goes on a cross-country trip to an amusement park as hilarious hi-jinks occur along the way. The screenplay was written by John Hughes on the basis of his short story "Vacation '58," which appeared in '' National Lampoon''. The film was a box-office hit, earning more than $60 million in the U.S. with an estimated budget of $15 million, and received positive reviews from critics. As a result of its success, five sequels have been produced: ''European Vacation'' (1985), ''Christmas Vacation'' (1989), ''Vegas Vacation'' (1997), '' Christmas Vacation 2'' (2003) and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
