SNL50 Is A Must-Watch For Saturday Night Live Fans + Interview With EP Morgan Neville
/Film Daily
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4.6 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On the January 21, 2025 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor Brad Oman to talk about the new documentary series SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night and present an interview with its executive producer, Morgan Neville.
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- SNL50 thoughts
- Interview with Morgan Neville
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to Slash Film Daily. Today is Tuesday, January 21st, 2025. On today's episode of the show, |
| 0:06.1 | we're going to be talking about the new documentary series, SNL 50, Beyond Saturday Night, and we'll present an interview with that show's executive producer Morgan Neville. My name is Ben Pearson. I am an editor at Slashfilm.com, and I'm joined on today's episode by you guessed it slash film editor, Brad |
| 0:21.5 | Oman. Hey, that's me. All right, Brad, you're the S&L expert. So I'm just so curious to know |
| 0:27.6 | what you thought about this show. All four episodes of S&L 50 beyond Saturday night are streaming |
| 0:33.6 | on Peacock right now. And I just have to imagine that this was probably something like |
| 0:39.3 | catnip for you being a big S&L fan. But you tell me, what did you think about it? Yeah, this is exactly |
| 0:44.5 | my shit. This is like deep dive comedy nerd stuff. If you love S&L, even if you don't love S&L, |
| 0:52.4 | it's still a fascinating deep dive into how the show works. |
| 0:57.3 | One particular iconic sketch, a particular season that you might not remember very well because it was very weird and largely considered not that great. |
| 1:06.1 | And also something involving all of the cast members looking back on how they got the job on |
| 1:12.0 | SNL to begin with. It's just such a cool, like, look at the history of the show, the legacy it has, |
| 1:21.8 | and also just how it works. And I think a lot of people don't fully understand what goes into |
| 1:27.1 | making the show |
| 1:27.7 | function and how much of a miracle it is that it even happens every single time there's a new |
| 1:32.8 | episode. And so, yeah, this is, I think, one of the coolest in-depth looks at the show, probably |
| 1:40.0 | since James Franco did his documentary Saturday night, which of course James Franco, |
| 1:45.0 | fallen from Grace, not a great person, but he was given like unprecedented access to the show |
| 1:51.3 | like, I think like 15 years ago, something like that. And Lorne Michaels let him bring, I think |
| 1:58.4 | it was himself or just a very small crew go behind the scenes during an episode |
| 2:02.8 | when John Malkovich hosted. And it was a fly on the wall documentary just watching how they made |
| 2:08.6 | the show and how it all came together for a single episode. And this just provides even more |
| 2:14.4 | background details and information in a variety of ways. |
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