BUTV’s Terrier Tonight: BU’s Version of Saturday Night Live
The show, created by Lily Greenberg (COM’27) and Doran Steinfeld (COM’27, CFA’27), features comedy sketches and recurring segments, many with a BU angle
BUTV’s Terrier Tonight: BU’s Version of Saturday Night Live
Show features comedy sketches and recurring segments, many with a BU angle
Fiona Bright and Ellie Tiwari perform the “Campus Celebrity Check-In“ segment of Terrier Tonight at a rehearsal in November. Bright is acting as a “Turkey Party of the USA Representative,” who is speaking on behalf of the turkeys on BU’s campus. Photos by Charlie Cohen (COM’29)
This article was originally published in BU Today on March 3, 2026. By Crystal Yormick (COM’26)
EXCERPT
Think of Terrier Tonight as BU’s answer to Saturday Night Live. This new live comedy show, airing on BUTV twice a semester, delivers recurring segments and offbeat sketches—like a stalker-esque job interview for a role at Facebook and a pitch-perfect soda commercial satire.
But some of its biggest laughs come from inside jokes only BU students can truly appreciate: like Campus Celebrity Check-In, with characters like “eduroam”—except it’s not actually eduroam, it’s the BU Guest (unencrypted) Wi-Fi network—and a BU tour guide training.
The show launched this fall, created by Lily Greenberg (COM’27) and Doran Steinfeld (COM’27, CFA’27). The pair came up with the idea more than a year ago and spent months turning it into a reality. Initially recorded live-to-tape, the 30-minute episodes are now transitioning to a fully live format.
“We hit the ground running,” Greenberg says. “We started working on it over the summer, and we got to put together this really awesome team of people, and it felt like we all really had the same vision for what we wanted for it.”
