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The show is credited with starting or boosting the careers of Creator/RichHall, Jan Hooks, Creator/ConanOBrien and Greg Daniels, all of whom worked on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' after this show.

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show.[[note]]In another connection, cast member Mitchell Laurance was the identical twin of Matthew Laurance, an SNL featured cast member during the brief Jean Doumanian era.[[/note]]



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* SkewedPriorities: A segment covering a football game has a player collapse on the field. The commentators are concerned that the player reinjured a recently healed knee. It actually turns out that the player died from a heart attack. After this revelation, one of the commentators is relieved that it wasn't his knees.
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* PressureSensitiveInterface: {{Conversed}}. The "Sniglets" section defines the term elecceleration as thinking that jabbing an elevator's buttons will cause it to accelerate. Years later, it would get further busted by the ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}''.
--> '''Elecceleration:''' The mistaken belief that repeatedly pressing the elevator button will make it go faster.
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The show is credited with starting or boosting the careers of Rich Hall, Jan Hooks, Creator/ConanOBrien and Greg Daniels, all of whom worked on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' after this show.

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The show is credited with starting or boosting the careers of Rich Hall, Creator/RichHall, Jan Hooks, Creator/ConanOBrien and Greg Daniels, all of whom worked on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' after this show.
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* ItIsPronouncedTroPay: One segment parodied the Soviet news program "BPEMR"[[note]](that last letter is actually TheBackwardsR)[[/note]]... and instead of using the actual pronunciation "Vremya", they used "Buhpemmer".
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* RealSongThemeTune: "Motherless Children" by Eric Clapton was used in the opener from 1982 to 1985; replaced by "Hooray For The City" by Jack Mack & The Heart Attack from 1985 to 1987.
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''Not Necessarily The News'' was a comedy program that aired on Creator/{{HBO}} from 1982 to 1990. Based on the British TV series ''Series/NotTheNineOClockNews'', political satire was the show's stock in trade, as the ensemble poked fun at the headlines of the times, not to mention the news media itself.

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''Not Necessarily The the News'' was a comedy program that aired on Creator/{{HBO}} from 1982 to 1990. Based on the British TV series ''Series/NotTheNineOClockNews'', political satire was the show's stock in trade, as the ensemble poked fun at the headlines of the times, not to mention the news media itself.


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