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How much did Lorne Michaels offer the Beatles to reunite on SNL?

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Promoter Bill Sargent offered the Beatles tens of millions of dollars to reunite in 1976, and they turned it down. "Saturday Night Live" had nowhere near that kind of budget, but creator Lorne Michaels figured what the hell. From the SNL desk during the show's first season, he held up a real NBC certified check made out to "The Beatles." How much money did Michaels offer the Beatles to reunite on SNL?