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Saturday Night Live

American late-night live television sketch comedy show
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Summary

Saturday Night Live is a television series[1]. It ranks in the top 0.28% of television series entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (58,913 views/month, #60 of 21,487).[2]

Key Facts

  • Director: Tim Robbins[3], Ken Friedman[4], Paul Thomas Anderson[5], Mitchell Kriegman[6], John Davies[7], Walter Williams[8], Anthony Lover[9], Jorma Taccone[10], Colin Jost[11], Jason Woliner[12], Tom Warburton[13], Christopher Guest[14], Robert Leacock[15], Greg Scarnici[16]
  • Genre: sketch show[17], stand-up comedy[18], humor[19], political satire[20], variety show[21]
  • Cast member: Don Pardo[22], Darrell Hammond[23], Kenan Thompson[24], Seth Meyers[25], Bobby Moynihan[26], Tim Meadows[27], Chevy Chase[28]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Group[29]

  • Country: US[30]

  • Began / founded: 1975[31]

  • Community tags: cast[32]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 778b6a90-4dff-41e1-90ba-7b3ad14013a5[33]

Why It Matters

Saturday Night Live has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] It is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]

Related Entities

Adam McKay Adam Sandler Al Franken Amy Poehler Andy Samberg Andy Warhol Anthony Michael Hall Ben Stiller Bill Hader Bill Murray Bill Paxton Billy Crystal Chevy Chase Chris Farley Chris Rock Conan O'Brien Dakota Johnson Damon Wayans Dan Aykroyd David Koechner David Spade Dean Edwards Eddie Murphy Eric Idle Fred Armisen Gilbert Gottfried Gilda Radner Harry Shearer Janeane Garofalo Jane Curtin

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [29] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [30] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [31] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [32] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [33] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [34] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [35] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6d ago · יוניון ג'ק · 2026-10-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'ary', 'arz', 'ast', 'bg', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'eo',
    Number of seasons → {'amount': '+52'}
    Gnd id → 7715323-6
    Claims rich → —
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  2. 6w ago · MsMorale · 2026-08-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14821 → 72562
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  3. 7w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Original language of film or tv show → English
    Instance of → television series
    Original broadcaster → NBC
    Social media followers → {'amount': '+3023317'}, {'amount': '+2782464'}, {'amount': '+12000000'} +5
    + 35 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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