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The death of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco during SNL's first season in 1975 served as the source of one of the first catchphrases from SNL to enter the general populace. [Chevy Chase]?, reader of the news on the program's comedic news segment, announced the fascist dictator's death and read a quote from Richard Nixon praising Franco as a good friend of the United States; as an ironic counterpoint to this, a picture was displayed behind Chase, showing Franco standing alongside Adolf Hitler.
The death of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco during SNL's first season in 1975 served as the source of one of the first catchphrases from SNL to enter the general populace. [Chevy Chase]?, reader of the news on the program's comedic news segment, announced the fascist dictator's death and read a quote from Richard Nixon praising Franco as a good friend of the United States; as an ironic counterpoint to this, a picture was displayed behind Chase, showing Franco standing alongside Adolf Hitler. In addition the humor referred to the fact that the imminent
death of Franco was the headline story on the NBC news for a number of weeks previous.
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