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Not Necessarily the News
NNTNNot Necessarily the News is an American satirical sketch comedy series that aired on HBO from 1983 to 1990, following a 1982 pilot special. Adapted from the British Not the Nine O'Clock News, it mixed sketches, commercial parodies, parody…
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Not Necessarily the News is an American satirical sketch comedy series that aired on HBO from 1983 to 1990, following a 1982 pilot special. Adapted from the British Not the Nine O'Clock News, it mixed sketches, commercial parodies, parody news items and re-dubbed real news footage. Its long-running ensemble included Anne Bloom, Danny Breen, Rich Hall, Mitchell Laurance, Stuart Pankin and Lucy Webb.
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