TV series · 1983
Not Necessarily the News
First aired 8 August 1983 News / Comedy TMDB ↗
Not Necessarily the News is a satirical sketch comedy series that first aired on HBO in September 1982 as a comedy special, and then ran as a series from 1983 to 1990. It featured sketches, parody news items, commercial parodies, and humorous bits made from overdubbing or editing actual news footage. It was based on the British series, Not the Nine O'Clock News. Not Necessarily the News was also the birthplace of Rich Hall's sniglets.
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Anne Bloom
Mitchell Laurance
Rich Hall
Jan Hooks
Michael Bailey Smith
Lucy Webb
as Helen St. Thomas
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Ronald Reagan
as Self (archive footage)
Scoop Jackson
as Self (archive footage)
Fritz Hollings
as Self (archive footage)
Alexander Haig
as Self (archive footage)
Alan K. Simpson
as Self (archive footage)
Dick Gephardt
as Self (archive footage)
Jesse Jackson
as Self (archive footage)
Stuart Pankin
Annabelle Gurwitch
Matthew Perry
as Bob