The Andy Warhol Museum

I Just Want to Watch: Andy Warhol’s T.V. on Saturday Night Live

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The Andy Warhol Museum is pleased to present the first installment of an online screening series featuring the film, video, and television work of Andy Warhol. The programs will showcase classic, rarely screened, and never-before-seen films, video diaries, and television projects Warhol and company created between 1963 and 1987. The series, developed exclusively as one-evening events, will be hosted and introduced by The Warhol’s associate curator of film & video, Greg Pierce. The series provides global access to new HD versions of the films as well as unique celebrity guest perspectives on Warhol’s moving image art and his influence and legacy, within the context of contemporary art, experimental cinema and pop culture.


Program 3 will re-broadcast Warhol’s first appearance on network television as a comedian in 1981. Also included will be the camera original tapes that were shot to create the humorous short piece.




Program 3 – total running time 68 minutes

Andy Warhol T.V. Productions

Andy Warhol’s T.V. on Saturday Night Live, [broadcast October 3, 1981], 1981

1” videotape, color, sound, 1 minute

With Andy Warhol

© The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved.


Andy Warhol T.V. Productions

"#1 Andy & SNL", "#2 Andy & SNL", and "#3 Andy & SNL", 1981

¾” videotape [3 total], color, sound, 67 minutes total

With Andy Warhol

© The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved.

  • Year
    1981
  • Runtime
    68 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Director
    Andy Warhol
  • Filmmaker
    Andy Warhol
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