VIDEO: FOX & FRIENDS Chat with 'Mayor Bloomberg' on SNL's Cold Opening
By: Tyler Peterson May. 05, 2013
On last night's SNL cold opening, The FOX & Friends crew added their two centss on NBA player Jason Collins announcing he is gay. In addition, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg is grilled on gun control and his sugary drink laws. Check it out below!
Zach Galifiniakis returned for the third time to host Saturday Night Live last night, May 4, with Monsters and Men serving as musical guests.
Since its inception in 1975, "SNL" has launched the careers of many of the brightest comedy performers of their generation; and, as The New York Times noted on the occasion of the show's Emmy-winning 25th Anniversary special in 1999: "In Defiance of both time and show business convention, 'SNL' is still the most pervasive influence on the art of comedy in contemporary culture." At the close of the century, "Saturday Night Live" placed seventh on Entertainment Weekly's list of the Top 100 Entertainers of the past fifty years.
The program has won 36 Emmy Awards and now holds the title for the most nominated television show in Emmy history with 156 nominations. "SNL" has been honored twice, in 1990 and 2009, with the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award and cited as "truly a national institution." "Saturday Night Live" was inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame by the National Association of Broadcasters, and the show continues to garner the highest ratings of any late-night television program, entertaining millions each week."Saturday Night Live," which premiered Oct. 11, 1975, is broadcast live from NBC's famed Studio 8H in New York City's Rockefeller Center. The program is a production of Broadway Video in association with SNL Studios. Lorne Michaels is the executive producer.
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