Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live is a legendary sketch comedy show broadcast by NBC since 1975. It features a news parody segment called Weekend Update, which is often compared to The Daily Show.

As SNL is also a comedy show broadcast from New York, there are numerous connection between SNL and TDS.
 * A. Whitney Brown was a SNL cast member before becoming one of the original TDS correspondents.
 * Nancy Walls was an SNL cast member before joining the TDS team.
 * Rob Riggle was an SNL "featured player" before joining the TDS team.
 * Some correspondents, like Steve Carell, auditioned for SNL before joining TDS.
 * Jon Stewart has hosted SNL once, in 2002, and former correspondents Carell and Ed Helms have hosted after leaving TDS.
 * Carell and Stephen Colbert provided the voices for "The Ambiguously Gay Duo", a popular series of animated shorts that aired on SNL as part of Saturday TV Funhouse.