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Weekend Update is a Saturday Night Live sketch which comments on and parodies current events. It is the show's longest running recurring sketch, having been on since the show's first broadcast, and is typically presented in the middle of the show immediately after the first musical performance. Each season one or two of the players is cast in the role of news anchor, telling jokes based on current events and acting as host(s) for occasional editorials, commentaries, or other performances by other cast members or guests. It is often credited with pioneering the fake news format that has since been adapted by many shows worldwide, such as The Daily Show and Canada's long running This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
Don Ohlmeyer (born circa 1945) is a television producer and former president of NBC. He began his work as the producer of Monday Night Football . In 1998, "Weekend Update" host Norm MacDonald was fired from Saturday Night Live by Ohlmeyer, who said that MacDonald was simply "not funny". Some have...
James Thomas Fallon (born September 19, 1974 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American comedian, actor and musician who is best known for his work on Saturday Night Live . Since the year 2000, Fallon has co-anchored Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" segment with Tina Fey. At the end of the season...
List of satirical television news programs
This Hour Has Seven Days This Hour Has 22 Minutes The "Weekend Update" segment of Saturday Night...
Jane Curtin (born September 6, 1947) is an American actress and comedian, from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Curtin became one of the original cast members for NBC's Saturday Night Live in 1975 and remained on the show until 1980. Curtin cohosted the shows Weekend Update segment, with Dan Aykroyd...
anchor for the show's Weekend Update news parody, and was featured in several sketches. However, the new...
. Chase was the original anchor for the Weekend Update segment, which he began with the catch phrase...
The Hollywood Minute was a weekly sketch on Saturday Night Live . It consisted of David Spade sitting behind a desk viciuosly lampooning celebrities. The Hollywood Minute was originally a section of the Weekend Update but in the 1996 season it got an off-shoot called 'Spade In America' which was...
Parody of The Vagina Monologues Weekend Update In 2000 Fey and Jimmy Fallon became co-anchors of SNL's Weekend Update , a pairing that ended in May 2004 when Fallon made his last appearance as a cast member. Fey's primary role on Weekend Update is as performer, since most of the writing for the segment...
Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead
Weekend Update, announced the dictator's death and read a quote from Richard Nixon praising Franco as...
hosted the "Weekend Update" segment, and occasionally did impressions of Larry King, Burt Reynolds...