Not Necessarily the News
Not Necessarily the News
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Not Necessarily the News

6.6 / 10
1983
8 seasons
100 episodes
NewsComedy

Not Necessarily the News is a satirical sketch comedy series that first aired on HBO in September 1982 as a comedy special, and then ran as a series from 1983 to 1990. It featured sketches, parody news items, commercial parodies, and humorous bits made from overdubbing or editing actual news footage. It was based on the British series, Not the Nine O'Clock News. Not Necessarily the News was also the birthplace of Rich Hall's sniglets.

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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Pilot {1}

    08-08-198330m

    The Newsroom is shut down and our newscasters must go elsewhere. However they do not do well and they become homeless. They are saved by a friendly man named Chester, who br...

  • Ep 2

    2.Pilot {2}

    15-08-198330m

    Living in the house of Chester, our team discovers he is an infamous murdere and call the police, but discover that they themselves are being arrested for being accomplices....

  • Ep 3

    3.Pilot {3}

    22-08-198330m

    Are team, desperate for money, start a chalk selling buisness, after it fails, they try several other things before getting hired at a new station, WBBCC

  • Ep 4

    4.The Regan of Doom

    02-10-198330m

    The newsroom is visited by a Ronald Regan impersonater, he begins to wreak havoc and begin turning the staff against each other. They proceed to throw the Regan out, but they...

  • Ep 5

    5.Theo

    09-10-198330m

    Annabelle has a new love intrest, a quirky fellow named Theo. Meanwhile, A mystery guest has been called to the show, who is he? what will he do? The answer is: Its the Regan...

  • Ep 6

    6.Road Trip

    16-10-198330m

    Rich and Michael go on a road trip to mexico where Rich is kidnapped and traded for beer. Meanwhile the crew is visited by a gay man. Also, Annabelle divises a plot to humili...

  • Ep 7

    7.Machine

    23-10-198330m

    Staurt gets a new car, and so does Rich. They decide to have a deathrace. After Stuart wins, Rich gets depressed and checks himself into mental institution, leaving Stuart to...

  • Ep 8

    8.Halloween {unedited version}

    TBA30m

    In this uncut original episode that HBO refused to air becuase of male nudity and slams at the U.N. {The ONLY time HBO has ever pulled an episode} Rich picks up up a hooker t...

  • Ep 9

    9.Halloween {Edited Version}

    07-11-198330m

    In this newly edited version, the comments {or slurs} against the United Nations and the male nudity scene are cut out. HBO also wanted the scene where a woman is penetrat...

  • Ep 10

    10.Audrie in Love

    14-11-198330m

    Audrie gets two love intrests, Rob and Bob, who turn out to be brothers. Meanwhile, Rich has a try at boxing, and of course, fails miserably.

  • Ep 11

    11.The Funeral

    21-11-198330m

    After Rich's father dies, he makes an ass of himself at the funeral. Eating candles and making love to a dog.

  • Ep 12

    12.Action Star

    28-11-198330m

    The Stuido is visted by an Arnold Swartzenger type character. Audire and Annabelle both fall in love with him, so does Rich, who questions his sexuality.

  • Ep 13

    13.KKK and Rich

    05-12-198330m

    Rich joins a group club. Little does he know this club is the dreaded Klu Kulx Klan. Meanwhile Micheal tries to call a bet made by Stuart that he can make love to 3 women at once.

  • Ep 14

    14.Human Face

    12-12-198330m

    Rich gets plastic surgeary, but his doctors fear he has gotten cancer from the plastic. Meanwhile, Stuart and Melanie have a flashback of there mystery past.

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