Saturday Night Live
For its first couple of years, SNL was a genuine comedic rebellion, with the like of John Belushi affecting a rude mid-’70s punk-rock pose. With success, SNL went from playing CBGB to stadiums, but as the Eddie Murphy, Mike Myers and Tina Fey peaks proved, mass success doesn’t always mean the death of funny. SNL is not really a TV show anymore so much as a graduate school of American comedy, and it’s been as significant for the kind of artists it didn’t know what to do with (Chris Rock, Sarah Silverman) as for the stars it effortlessly launched (Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler). And every now and then it proves it can still matter, as when Rudolph Giuliani joined producer Lorne Michaels for the show’s pitch-perfect return after 9/11. (Michaels: “Can we be funny?” Giuliani: “Why start now?”) Like a land shark, or a certain organ in a box, SNL can still surprise you.
A - F
- The Abbott and Costello Show
- ABC's Wide World of Sports
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents
- All in the Family
- An American Family
- American Idol
- Arrested Development
- Battlestar Galactica
- The Beavis and Butt-Head Show
- The Bob Newhart Show
- Brideshead Revisited
- Buffalo Bill
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- The Carol Burnett Show
- The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
- A Charlie Brown Christmas
- Cheers
- The Cosby Show
- The Daily Show
- Dallas
- The Day After
- Deadwood
- The Dick Van Dyke Show
- Dragnet
- The Ed Sullivan Show
- The Ernie Kovacs Show
- Felicity
- Freaks and Geeks
- The French Chef
- Friends
G - M
- General Hospital
- The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
- Gilmore Girls
- Gunsmoke
- Hill Street Blues
- Homicide: Life on the Street
- The Honeymooners
- I, Claudius
- I Love Lucy
- King of the Hill
- The Larry Sanders Show
- Late Night with David Letterman (NBC)
- Leave It to Beaver
- Lost
- Married... with Children
- Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- M*A*S*H
- The Monkees
- Monty Python's Flying Circus
- Moonlighting
- MTV 1981-1992
- My So-Called Life
- Mystery Science Theater 3000
N - S
- The Odd Couple
- The Office [American]
- The Office [British]
- The Oprah Winfrey Show
- Pee Wee's Playhouse
- Playhouse 90
- The Price Is Right
- Prime Suspect
- The Prisoner
- The Real World
- Rocky and His Friends
- Roots
- Roseanne
- Sanford and Son
- Saturday Night Live
- Second City Television
- See It Now
- Seinfeld
- Sesame Street
- Sex and the City
- The Shield
- The Simpsons
- The Singing Detective
- Six Feet Under
- 60 Minutes
- Soap
- The Sopranos
- South Park
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- SportsCenter
- Star Trek
- St. Elsewhere
- The Super Bowl (and the Ads)
- Survivor
T - Z
- Taxi
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
- 24
- The Twilight Zone
- Twin Peaks
- The West Wing
- What's My Line?
- WKRP in Cincinnati
- The Wire
- Wiseguy
- The X-Files
- Your Show of Shows
