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Wayne's World began on Canadian public-access TV

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Before it dominated Saturday Night Live and the box office, the basement-dwelling slacker aesthetic was bleedingly real. Mike Myers honed the format on actual, zero-budget local cable access programs, embracing the messy, amateurish charm of late-night community TV to create a billion-dollar franchise rooted in the raw, unfiltered weirdness of pre-internet broadcasting.

Wayne's World began on Canadian public-access TV
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