Not Necessarily the News

...the studio came from Markoe, who also won a Writer's Guild award for her writing/performing work on HBO's late-1980s hit Not Necessarily the News. She and Letterman were also involved romantically from 1978-1988, after which Markoe moved...

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...humorous bits made from overdubbing or editing actual news footage. It was based on the British series, Not the Nine O'Clock News. Not Necessarily the News was also the birthplace of Rich Hall's sniglets. Rich Hall, who did a regular...

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Daniels began his career as a writer on the HBO satirical news show Not Necessarily the News before moving to Saturday Night Live. There he spent three seasons at SNL, winning an Emmy Award in the process. Greg then joined The Simpsons,...

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...Sniglets, which he popularized on "The David Letterman Show" (a short-lived daytime show that Letterman hosted on NBC in 1980) and the HBO series "Not Necessarily the News," which aired in the early 1980s. Hall was also a regular on NBC's...

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Lucy Webb is an American comedienne and actress, most famous for her work on the 1980s HBO series Not Necessarily The News. Webb has appeared in multiple films and television programs, including Corrina, Corrina, where she portrayed...

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...created by writer/actor/comedian Rich Hall, who first created a series of Sniglets while he was a performer on the 1980s HBO comedy series Not Necessarily the News. Each episode of the monthly series featured a regular segment on Sniglets by...

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...Earl Sinclair in the TV sitcom ''Dinosaurs '' and the father on the short-lived sitcom ''Nearly Departed. Pankin was also an anchor on HBO's Not Necessarily the News and has appeared in numerous TV commercials. Pankin played an...

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...novelist Flannery O'Connor. He became editor of the Harvard Lampoon, and after college he wrote skits for improv groups, jokes for "Not Necessarily The News," gags for "Saturday Night Live" and scripts for "The Simpsons." Eventually,...

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Remember a show on HBO a couple of decades ago called Not Necessarily The News? They had a segment called sniglets which has gotten popular in various media and emails. Its where you create alternative definitions for words or create/combine...

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...Brookline-bred O'Brien said he's looking forward to the move to Los Angeles. It was there that he got his start as a writer for HBO's "Not Necessarily the News." "I hate leaving New York City - it's been a great home to me," he said. "But...

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