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National Comedy Center Preserves ‘Saturday Night Live’ Early Writing Materials (EXCLUSIVE)
The National Comedy Center will preserve a collection of early creative papers from "Saturday Night Live."
The script for the first “SNL” episode, which was hosted by George Carlin, will go into the collection along with drafts for Weekend Update segments among other features and sketches. “These papers are a rare encapsulation of the creative chaos and revolutionary spirit of ‘SNL’s formative years, when so many classic sketches and memorable characters were first brought to life. “This singular collection offers a glimpse into the inner workings of ‘Saturday Night Live’’s storied writers’ room at the moment of its genesis, when iconic characters and sketches first found their form,” Journey Gunderson, National Comedy Center’s executive director, said in a statement.
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