Saturday Night Live: The Official Anniversary Album

The official commemorative album timed to coincide with the three hour, live 25th Anniversary special of SNL. Done with the full cooperation of every living SNL alumn and the full marketing support of NBC.Saturday Night Live is still the most popular show on late night TV, destroying the competition in its time slot and routinely outperforming Leno, Letterman, or even Nightline. SNL 25 will bring together in words and hundreds of never before seen photographs the funniest moments from the show's 25 year history. In addition, you'll find the greatest skits that were never aired, candid essays from ten of SNL's biggest stars, tributes to the six cast members who've died, salutes from SNL's greatest hosts and all the trivia an SNL fan could ever want.More than just a chronicle of the show, this book will be the definitive compendium of American comedy over the last 25 years. Just open Entertainment Weekly to see what we're talking about here.Who tops the comedy box office?Adam Sandler, Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy.How about on primetime?David Spade has propelled Just Shoot Me to the top of the Neilson's.Who's the top stand up in the late 90s?None other than SNL alumn Chris Rock.And that's just in the past few years. Over its history Saturday Night Live has featured brilliant performances from more people than we can even name here. And they'll all be included in the book. The players include: Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Joe Piscopo, Julia Lois-Dreyfus, Billy Crystal, Martin Short, Joan Cusack, Jon Lovitz, Dennis Miller, Phil Hartman, Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, Chris Elliott, Janeane Garofalo, Molly Shannon, Jim Breuer and many, many more.