Is It SNL…Or Is It Memorex?

Those sketches featuring “MacGruber” and looking like a takeoff on “MacGyver” might have looked like Saturday Night Live sketches but they were real Pepsi ads, although SNL producer Lorne Michaels produced them and SNL cast member Will Forte starred. NBC brass note that the result was not just revenue, it was more exposure for the satiric late night show as well. Read more here.