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Fridays is the name of ABC's weekly late-night live comedy show, which aired on Friday nights from April 11, 1980 to April 23, 1982. The show was originally 70 minutes long before being expanded to 90 minutes.
The program was ABC's attempt to duplicate the success of NBC's Saturday Night Live. Like SNL, each week Fridays featured music acts and, in the second season, celebrity guest hosts, as well as fake newscasts and spoofs of television shows and commercials.
The humor of the show differed from Saturday Night Live in as much as it included stronger drug humor (often depicting simulated drug usage as its basis for laughs, as seen in "Nat E. Dredd, the Rasta Gourmet"), stronger sex humor (often making references to bondage, premarital sex, and transvestitism), stronger political satire, sketches that featured actual physical violence, and sketches that were more dramatic than comedic. The show soon became more popular than SNL, when the NBC show launched its disastrous sixth season...
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