Sarah Palin …. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Trivia Six episodes were ordered for the second season, but due to low ratings, only three were produced. User reviews 2 Review. Top review. A three part prelude to the Bash. On several occasions during the third decade of Saturday Night Live, it's oldest mainstay, Weekend Update, branched out and found itself being broadcast on other nights beside Saturday.
Thursday's in the weeks leading up to what many believed to be the most important American election of century. Another notable factor in the development of these spin off broadcasts was the fact that the previous season of SNL, it's 33d, had been abruptly put on hold from November to February because of the writer's strike.
During the previous years SNL cast and crew-members had become accustomed to producing 20 episodes between September and May and taking one or two weeks off in between every couple of episodes. This process changed when SNL finally came back at the end of the shortest month of the year. For the first time since the Seventies, four new shows were broadcast in a row.
Although they only managed to bring the 33d up to a total of 12 episodes, the experience spurred on Lorne Michaels and co to cut their summer Holiday's short and make the next season totally jam packed: starting early, taking as little time of in between as possible and producing specials such as the Weekend Update Thursdays along the way.
Even if a lot of sketches fall flat, the sheer amount of material produced in such a hectic schedule is sure to please fans. This might well turn out to be the longest season since As with the previous Prime Time specials, Weekend Update is the main draw of these three specials. Each show comprises basically one long political sketch leading into a truncated opening credits, with the remainder of the half hour filled in with Weekend Update zingers from head writer Seth Myers and Lorne's favorite go-to girl Amy Poehler.
Show one featured a spoof of the Second Presidential Debate, featuring the entire cast and surprise appearances by returning alum's Chris Parnell and Bill Murray. Number two focused on the third and final debate, starred a stripped down cast and another cameo by Parnell. Darrell Hammond was featured as Senator John McCain in each and all three of these sketches naturally appear in the Presidential Bash ' Another element worth mentioning was that Amy Poehler at this point was extremely pregnant and had already announced she would not be returning to SNL after giving birth, but move on to work on a new series tentatively referred to as a spin off of The Office.
In fact, the third and last of the Thursday editions turned out to be her final show before going into labor. However, Lorne Michaels managed to persuade the Mrs. SNL is justly proud of it's political parodies and always gets to shine a bit more brightly during election years. It's a shame that apart from the political stuff, much of the season has been relying on celebrity cameo's up till now, but as we still have more than half a season to go as of this writing, there is still a chance that season 34 - and that includes these three Thursday specials - will fit into the SNL time-line as one of the greatest ever.
Or at least the most exhausting for all involved. Extending from 9am all the way through the following morning. Sketches may not be written until 8pm, depending on the time to brainstorm the sketch. At 5pm on Wednesday, the cast reads the sketches in a round-table meeting in the writer's room attended by the writers and producers.
The lead pianist for the Saturday Night Live Band may show up to accompany music for any sketches involving singing. Around 40 sketches are read, lasting upwards 3 hours. After the read-through is completed, the host, head writer, and producers move to Michaels' office to decide the layout of the show and make a decision on which sketches make the cut. Afterwards, the cast and writers are invited in to see the layout of the show and to see which sketches made the cut.
Thursday is the day to develop the sketches. Sets are built, costumes are made, makeup is done, and sketches are rewritten. More sketches are cut late-Thursday; any sketch surviving past Thursday will make it to Friday and Saturday rehearsals, and will be performed in the 8pm dress rehearsal. Friday and Saturday are pure rehearsal days. Pretaped sketches are rehearsed and taped first on Friday, and may take up until 4pm until the live sketches are rehearsed.
At 8pm on Saturday a Dress Rehearsal is performed in front of a live audience. The live audience is used as a test monkey to determine which sketches and jokes are funny enough to make it to the live show later that night.
The Dress Rehearsal takes about two hours, and the sketches and Weekend Update jokes that received less grace are cut until the show meets the 90 minute length. At pm the live show begins broadcasting on live TV. The show runs approximately 92 minutes, ending just before am.
All Cast Members are clocked out after am, though many head to after-parties in New York City that last throughout late Sunday Morning.
Throughout the week, three to four writers are dedicated to write Weekend Update jokes for the week. On Thursday Evening, they are read by the anchors of Update, who contribute to the script if necessary.
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