Saturday Night Live is a popular late-night variety program on television. The weekly program features satire, music, and comedy. A guest host appears each Saturday night and is usually featured in some of the program's skits. Guest pop or rock performers provide the music along with a permanent "Saturday Night Live" band. "Saturday Night Live," often called SNL, is telecast in front of a live studio audience from New York City. The program premiered in 1975 and is still running.