Bonnie and Terry Turner are a husband-and-wife writing team, best known for creating the sitcoms

Situation comedy

A situation comedy, often shortened to sitcom, is a genre of comedy that features characters sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, accompanied with jokes as part of the dialogue...

 3rd Rock from the Sun

3rd Rock from the Sun

3rd Rock from the Sun is an American sitcom that aired from 1996 to 2001 on NBC. The show is about four extraterrestrials who are on an expedition to Earth, which they consider to be a very insignificant planet...

(1996

1996 in television

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 - 2001

2001 in television

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) and That '70s Show

That '70s Show

That '70s Show is an American television period sitcom that centers on the lives of a group of teenage friends living in the fictional suburban town of Point Place, Wisconsin, from May 17, 1976, to December 31, 1979...

(1998

1998 in television

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 - 2006

2006 in television

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), for NBC

NBC

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 and FOX

Fox Broadcasting Company

Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...

 respectively, as well as That '80s Show

That '80s Show

That '80s Show is an American sitcom that aired in half-hour long episodes from January through May 2002. Despite having a similar name, show structure, and many of the same writers and production staff, it is not considered a direct spin-off of the more successful That '70s Show, since the...

for FOX in 2002

2002 in television

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, and Normal, Ohio

Normal, Ohio

Normal, Ohio is an American television sitcom, which aired on the Fox Network in 2000. The show stars John Goodman as William "Butch" Gamble, a gay man returning to his Midwestern home town...

starring John Goodman

John Goodman

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 in 2000.

From 1986 until 1992, the team were staff writers for Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...

.

Between 1987 and 1995, they were responsible for authoring or screenwriting six films, including Coneheads

Coneheads (film)

Coneheads is a 1993 film based on the Saturday Night Live sketches about the Coneheads. The film was directed by Steve Barron and produced by Lorne Michaels...

, Wayne's World

Wayne's World (film)

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, Wayne's World 2

Wayne's World 2

Wayne's World 2 is a 1993 comedy film starring Mike Myers and Dana Carvey as hosts of a Public-access television cable TV show from Aurora, Illinois. The film was adapted from a sketch on NBC's Saturday Night Live and is the sequel to Wayne's World....

, Tommy Boy

Tommy Boy

Tommy Boy is a 1995 road comedy film directed by Peter Segal, written by Bonnie and Terry Turner, and Fred Wolf. It stars former Saturday Night Live colleagues Chris Farley and David Spade. The film tells the story of a socially and emotionally immature man who learns lessons about friendship and...

, and The Brady Bunch Movie

The Brady Bunch Movie

The Brady Bunch Movie is a 1995 American comedy film based on the 1969–1974 television series The Brady Bunch.The film features all the original regular characters, all played by new actors...

.

Atlanta History

Bonnie and Terry were part of a 1980s Atlanta comedy troupe whose members often appeared on the WTBS comedy TV show 'Tush (TV series)

Tush (TV series)

Tush was an American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Bill Tush and directed by R. T. Williams. The show premiered on WTCG in the United States. A number of the stars including Jan Hooks, Terry Turner, Bonnie Turner went on to work for Saturday Night Live....

'. Bonnie and Terry also worked as feature writers for (no relation) Ted Turner

Ted Turner

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's new (at the time) CNN

CNN

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 spinoff CNN Headline News

CNN Headline News

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. In the mid 1980s, they produced the WTBS Sunday morning magazine show Good News

Good news

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 with host Liz Wickersham

Liz Wickersham

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.

Another comedy troupe member and good friend, Jan Hooks

Jan Hooks

Janet V. "Jan" Hooks is an American actress and comedienne best known for her work on NBC's Saturday Night Live , on which she appeared from 1986 to 1991...

, after appearing in Pee-wee's Big Adventure

Pee-wee's Big Adventure

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, landed a spot on Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...

. Occasionally, Bonnie and Terry submitted comedy material for Jan (and via Jan) to Lorne Michaels

Lorne Michaels

Lorne Michaels, CM is a Canadian-American television producer, writer, and comedian best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live and producing the various film and TV projects that spun off from it.-Early life:...

. In 1986, Michaels convinced Bonnie and Terry to leave their lives in Atlanta and come to work in New York as fulltime writers on SNL.