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Saturday Night Live and the 1976 Presidential Election - A New Voice Enters Campaign Politics (Paperback)
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Saturday Night Live and the 1976 Presidential Election - A New Voice Enters Campaign Politics (Paperback)
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Two remarkable events occurred during 1976: The debut of Saturday
Night Live and the Presidential Election pitting Gerald Ford
against Jimmy Carter. Both events had profound and enduring
influence on shaping the country America is today. When Saturday
Night Live premiered, the show's impact was evident very quickly,
as it grabbed huge ratings and several Emmy Awards in its first
season; made household names of its seven original stars; and had a
remarkable influence on popular and political culture with its mix
of music, comedy, and live theater. In April of 1976, while he was
in the midst of a fight for the Republican presidential nomination
and his political survival, President Gerald Ford gave his press
secretary, Ron Nessen, permission to become the first politician to
guest host NBC's Saturday Night. In addition to Nessen, the
President also appeared on the show, via video tape, to introduce
his press secretary and to offer a comic counterpunch to Chevy
Chase's signature line, "I'm Chevy Chase and you're not," at the
beginning of "Weekend Update." Ever since Nessen's and Ford's
appearances, it has become a rite of passage for politicians with a
national profile, or those with a desire to have a national
presence, to appear on Saturday Night Live, and the show's
treatment of those politicians and many political topics has had a
continuing impact on Americans' feelings and discussions about
politics. This book is the first to examine the ground-shaking
collision of SNL and Presidential Politics when it all began.
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