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Feb 2025
27m 27s

SNL & Commercial Parodies (Encore)

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During SNL's recent 50th anniversary special, it showed a montage of their famous commercial parodies. Here’s an episode that talks about those and many others - and how SNL influenced the ad writers of my generation.




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