Super Bowl Domination

Chapter 921 Important Invitation

In the history of American television programs, talk shows have irreplaceable historical status and social significance. They are definitely more than just an entertainment program.

The fundamental reason is that talk shows cut into life in a light-hearted and humorous way, combining current affairs and trendy phenomena to make fun of and complain about them, making them both entertaining and educational, and are closely related to the lives of the general public. They have even evolved into a weather vane for people to capture hot topics in politics, society, culture, etc., and are fully integrated into people's daily lives.

"The Oprah Show," "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," "The Tonight Show," "The Daily Show," and so many more.

Tonight, Levi will make his first appearance on an American TV talk show.

Moreover, it is live broadcast.

"Saturday Night Live (SNL)

As the name of the show suggests, it is a live talk show that airs late on Saturday night, and in New York, it has become a unique landscape on Saturday nights in New York.

This program produced and broadcast by NBC TV has been one of the longest-running programs on North American television since its premiere in 1975. It remains popular and enduring.

The biggest feature of this talk show is that it combines the hottest topics of the moment and uses spoof sketches to criticize current affairs. It can also be seen as a mirror of popular culture, mocking fast food culture, entertainment to death and other phenomena.

Of course, because the program is broadcast late at night, the scale is relatively larger, and the spoof jokes are never lacking in topics and popularity.

Each "Saturday Night Live" episode includes a performing guest and a musical guest, with the two working together.

The guest performers are often the current top popular superstars and hot topic figures. After all, there are only twenty-four to twenty-six episodes in a season, and the quality of the guests needs to be carefully controlled. Not everyone can appear on "SNL".

In Hollywood, there is even a "Five-Time Host Club", which refers to the honorary club of those who can host "Saturday Night Live" five times. This is an important recognition. The guest needs to remain active and top for a long enough time and continue to stimulate the ratings of the show.

The performing guests will participate in the skit performances, and the audience will be able to see different sides of the guest. The most important thing is to learn to make fun of oneself and to make fun of oneself, which is a basic ability for a talk show.

The musical guests are usually popular singers who are currently in the promotion period. They will perform new songs on the spot, usually two songs, one during the halftime break and one at the end of the show.

The most important thing is that the entire program will be broadcast live.

Of course, it’s not 100% live.

A small number of sitcoms need to take special circumstances into consideration, such as the speed at which the actors change clothes, or the fact that the scenes may need to be modified and replaced on a large scale. These sitcoms need to be recorded in advance, but generally speaking, only one or two sitcoms are like this, and most programs always insist on live broadcast.

Therefore, during the live broadcast, the actors laughed uncontrollably, which was also a very interesting thing. At this time, what was tested was the actors' on-the-spot performance and ability to save the situation.

Precisely because of the live broadcast, "Saturday Night Live" is very busy during the broadcast season. It is broadcast live every Saturday, and Sunday, Monday and Tuesday are the time for screenwriters to write scripts. Most of the contracted regular actors of the program team are talented comedians. Many scripts are completed by themselves, and screenwriters and actors often exchange roles.

The following Wednesday and Thursday are the rehearsal stage, and Friday is the final actual combat exercise. At the same time, during the rehearsal process, if there are new current hot topics, they also need to adjust the script content at any time.

It really runs at high speed throughout the entire process without any rest time.

As guest performers, in order to ensure the smooth progress of the live broadcast, they need to arrive in New York at least two days in advance to rehearse with the entire program crew.

Only in very, very rare special circumstances will the performing guests only be able to rehearse one day in advance. In that case, the program team will need to adjust the live broadcast and try to arrange for the performing guests to play supporting roles without lines, leaving the main performance responsibilities to their regular actors.

As the top and most important talk show in the United States, the biggest difference of "Saturday Night Live" is that other talk shows are mainly based on interviews and conversations, but here it is mainly based on performances and sketches, which also means that for professional players, this is a great opportunity to show themselves.

Many top stars in basketball, baseball, and ice hockey have appeared on the stage of "Saturday Night Live", and football is no exception. Peyton Manning, Eli Manning, Tom Brady and others were invited to appear on the stage of "Saturday Night Live" as guest performers after winning the Super Bowl.

It can be understood in this way that the action of "being invited" itself is a kind of recognition, a reward and an honor.

There are Super Bowl champions every year, but not every year there are football players invited to "Saturday Night Live."

This year, Levi received an invitation.

The point is, they invited Levi, not quarterback Mahomes.

This is an improvement, and one can clearly feel from the side Levi's current status in the entire North American continent.

However, this is an honor as well as a challenge.

Live streaming is not easy.

In rugby games, it is not uncommon to see poor performance during live broadcasts of night games. What's more, this is not a game, it is a performance, and a comedy at that, which has nothing to do with rugby.

Difficult. Harder than ascending to heaven.

It is precisely because of this that Levi has been extremely busy in the past three days.

From rehearsals on Wednesday to Thursday, to actual practice with makeup on Friday, only after all preparations for "Saturday Night Live" were completed did she head to the charity party she had carefully prepared.

Then, early on Saturday morning, Levi arrived at the NBC TV studio early to prepare for tonight's live broadcast, showing the highest standard of treatment and not daring to relax at all.

It is also because of this that the reporter asked the question just now:

Did Ariana help?

Grande has appeared as a musical guest on Saturday Night Live more than once, having performed for the first time in March 2016.

The reporter's question was not really about the scandal between Levi and Ariana.

Unfortunately, Levi wasn't fooled.

Justin Timberlake is a member of the famous "Five-Time Host Club". If Levi really needs some advice, Justin should obviously be a more suitable person to consult.

One word thrown back and all the reporters were killed.

And then... no more.

Levi successfully got rid of the reporters' siege and entered the Blackstone Building in front of him to prepare for tonight's live broadcast.

The "zombies" scattered unwillingly. There was still a whole day before tonight's live broadcast. They could have been busy with other things first, and then come back to the Blackstone Building after 11 o'clock in the evening, waiting at the door and waiting for Levi to finish the live broadcast. Then they could carry out a second wave of interception and photography.

but--

No one left. Everyone lingered at the door reluctantly, and couldn't help but become curious about what was happening inside.
(End of this chapter)