Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday
| 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 |
| Written by | Seth Meyers (head writer) |
| Directed by | Don Roy King |
| Presented by | |
| Starring |
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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 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Lorne Michaels |
| Producers | Steve Higgins Marci Klein |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | NBC |
| Release | October 9, 2008 – August 24, 2017 |
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| Saturday Night Live | |
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.