Tag: Comedy

Podcast

11th October 1975: Saturday Night Live is broadcast for the first time

11th October 2021
Tagged as: Comedy, Culture, New York, Television, USA

Saturday Night Live was originally known as NBC’s Saturday Night to avoid any confusion with the ABC show Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell.

Podcast

19th April 1987: The Simpsons make their first television appearance on The Tracey Ullman Show

19th April 2021
Tagged as: America, Cartoon, Comedy, Culture, Television, United States, USA

An overwhelmingly positive reaction in season one meant that Simpsons shorts were featured in every episode of the next two seasons before being spun off into a standalone half-hour series in 1989.

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11th July 1947: The Edinburgh Festival Fringe marked by this live #WorldFringeDay podcast

11th July 2017
Tagged as: Anniversary, Art, Buxton, Comedy, Culture, Derbyshire, Edinburgh, Festival, International, Music, Scotland

HistoryPod is proud to be able to celebrate #WorldFringeDay, and the foundation of the Fringe movement, in this special live recording from the Buxton Festival Fringe in the wonderful English spa town of Buxton in Derbyshire.