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‘Saturday Night Live’ Backstage View On Sirius

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Sirius XM Radio will broadcast SNL on STERN, a five-part original series hosted by Howard Stern that offers a backstage history of Saturday Night Live as told by the show’s cast, guest hosts and writers from three decades of appearances on The Howard Stern Show.

SNL on STERN premieres on December 19 and airs through December 23 beginning at 6:00 am ET daily on Howard 100 and 6:00 am PT on Howard 101. SNL on STERN will air in five original installments, with encore performances all day and throughout the weekend on Howard 100.

SNL on STERN features interviews with nearly fifty former and current SNL stars including Chris Rock, Bill Murray, David Spade, Chevy Chase, Tina Fey, Jimmy Fallon, Dan Aykroyd, Jim Belushi, Robert Downey Jr., and Julia Louis Dreyfus, among others.

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