TRIVIA TODAY - Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Greetings Infomaniacs,

This past weekend was the Saturday Night Live 40th anniversary special. Did you know that 11 movies were made based on SNL sketches, such as Coneheads and Wayne's World.

I found that out while watching the special, which featured many veteran cast members and classic skits. After watching this 3 1/2 hour of SNL's best, I had to look up some other facts about the show. Here are some for you today...

Enjoy!
Melissa

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."

HINT: (1842-1910), was an American philosopher and psychologist who was also trained as a physician.


RANDOM TIDBITS
In 1974, Johnny Carson requested that NBC stop airing Tonight Show reruns on the weekend. He wanted to save those reruns for the extra time off he was planning to take during weekdays. NBC wanted to fill those weekend slots, so they hired Lorne Michaels to develop a show.

The show was originally called NBC's Saturday Night because there was already a show titled Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell on ABC. Cosell's show ended in 1976 and Lorne took the name.

On the show's premiere, Chevy Chase became the first person to say the signature line, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!"

The Festrunk brothers, also known as "Two Wild and Crazy Guys," were based on separate characters that Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd had developed individually. When Martin hosted SNL in the seventies, the two morphed their characters into a set of brothers.

Eddie Murphy got cast because he called the show's talent coordinator, Neil Levy, every day for a week explaining how desperately he needed the job. Levy decided he'd give Murphy a job as an extra, but brought him in to audition as well. His audition was so good that he was given a contract right away.

Tina Fey had already left the show before the 2008 election, but Lorne Michaels knew he had to ask her to return when, within a few minutes, both his doorman and Robert De Niro pointed out Fey's resemblance to Sarah Palin.

(www.mentalfloss.com)


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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."

ANSWER: William James.

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