James Anderson is an American television writer and actor. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the See also Pre-production Screenplay Screenwriting is the art and craft of writing scripts for Film, Television or Video games An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works Since 2000, he has served as a writer for NBC's Saturday Night Live. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Saturday Night Live ( SNL) is a weekly late-night 90-minute American Sketch comedy / Variety show based in New York City Anderson recently played himself on an episode of the network's new series 30 Rock. 30 Rock is an American Television comedy Series created by Tina Fey.