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The death (on November 20, 1975) of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco during the first season of NBC's Saturday Night originated the phrase. Franco's presumed imminent death had been a headline story on NBC News and other news organizations for several weeks.
Franco lingered near death for weeks before dying. On slow news days, United States network television newscasters sometimes noted that Franco was still alive, or not yet dead. The imminent death of Franco was a headline story on the NBC news for a number of weeks prior to his death on November 20, 1975.
Oct 29, 2019 · In 1975, on a satirical newscast on the American television show Saturday Night Live, mock reporter Chevy Chase announced Spanish dictator Francisco Franco’s death for the better part of a...
The death (on November 20, 1975) of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco during the first season of NBC's Saturday Night originated the phrase. Franco's presumed imminent death had been a headline story on NBC News and other news organizations for several weeks.
"Generalissimo [lower-alpha 1] Francisco Franco is still dead" is a catchphrase that originated in 1975 during the first season of NBC's Saturday Night (now called Saturday Night Live, or SNL) and which mocked the weeks-long media reports of the Spanish dictator's impending death.
Oct 4, 2013 · Subscribe to SaturdayNightLive: http://j.mp/1bjU39dWeekend Update: http://j.mp/1704TKySEASON 1: http://j.mp/17pVmQ9Chevy Chase announces the death of General...
Oct 11, 2018 · The Spanish dictator Francisco Franco has a reputation for refusing to go away, even decades after his death. The general took power after winning the Spanish Civil War in 1939 and held it for nearly four decades, long after fascism was ousted from the rest of Western Europe.
