| Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday | |
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| Also known as | Weekend Update: Special Edition (2009–2012) Weekend Update: Summer Edition (2017) |
| Genre | Comedy Satire News Parody |
| Created by | Lorne Michaels[1] |
| Written by | Seth Meyers (head writer)[1] |
| Directed by | Don Roy King[1] |
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| Narrated by | Don Pardo Darrell Hammond |
| Theme music composer | Jeff Richmond |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 11 (list of episodes) Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox television with "list_episodes" parameter using self-link. See Infobox instructions and MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE. |
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| Executive producer | Lorne Michaels[1] |
| Producers | Steve Higgins Marci Klein[1] |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | NBC |
| Release | October 9, 2008 – August 24, 2017 |
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| Saturday Night Live | |
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Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday is an American limited-run series broadcast on NBC. It is a political satire news show spin-off from Saturday Night Live, featuring that show's Weekend Update segment. It initially ran for three 30-minute episodes in October 2008, during the lead-up to the 2008 United States presidential election.
On March 14, 2017, NBC ordered a three-episode fourth iteration to be hosted by Michael Che and Colin Jost, premiering August 10, 2017, and going by the title Weekend Update: Summer Edition.
- ^ a b c d e Emmy Nominee Amy Poehler to Guest-star in First Two Episodes of NBC'S New 'Saturday Night Live: Weekend Update Thursday' on September 17 and 24 a July 30, 2009 press release from the NBC Universal website