Not Necessarily the News

Not Necessarily the News was a satirical sketch comedy series that ran on HBO from 1983 to 1990. It featured sketches, parody news items, commercial parodies, and humorous bits made from overdubbing or editing actual news footage.

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It starred:

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• Anne Bloom, as Frosty Kimelman
• Danny Breen, as Steve Casper
• Rich Hall, who did a regular feature on "sniglets".
• Mitchell Laurance, as news reporter Pete Kimelman.
• Stuart Pankin, as anchorman Bob Charles of the news team.
• Lucy Webb, as Helen St. Thomas

It was based on the British series, Not the Nine O'Clock News.

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This was Conan O'Brien's first professional writing gig.

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