Saturday Night Live movies have a decidedly checkered history. In total, 11 sketches were adapted into movies, starting with a bang when the Blues Brothers was born out of a 1976 sketch and became a film hit. Still, it would be over a decade before the second SNL film, Wayne’s World, made it to the big screen. That gap may be because of SNL‘s somewhat fallow ’80s decade, but the success of Wayne’s World led SNL honcho Lorne Michaels to continue these big screen adaptations, mostly in the ’90s.
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