With long-running NBC sketch comedy show “Saturday Night Live” airing new episodes in January and February after taking a month-long break for the holidays, let’s take a look back at a few Wilmington connections that have popped up on the show over the years. Some are direct, others less so.
“Saturday Night Live,” which premiered in 1975, is currently in the midst of its 49th season. Wilmington, which was founded in 1739, is in its 285th consecutive year of existence.
‘Karaoke All-Stars’
Wilmington’s most recent “appearance” on SNL came in 2021 , when the show aired a sketch poking fun at people who are really bad at karaoke. The sketch was set in a fictional Wilmington establishment called Bixby’s Bar & Grill.
The events that played out on screen, however, were inspired, at least in part, by some real-life happenings at downtown Wilmington bar Whiskey Tango Foxtrot during a private wrap party for the movie “One True Loves” starring Simu Liu (“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”). “One True Loves” shot in Wilmington in late 2020.