Great white shark all shark species, the great white shark is responsible for by far the largest number of recorded shark bite incidents on humans, with 272 documented unprovoked bite incidents on humans as of 2012. More than any documented bite incident, Peter Benchley's best-selling novel "Jaws" and the subsequent 1975 film adaptation directed by Steven Spielberg provided the great white shark with the image of being a "man eater" in the public mind. While great white sharks have killed humans in at least 74 documented unprovoked bite incidents, they typically do not target them: for example, in the Mediterranean Sea there have
Land Shark (Saturday Night Live) Land Shark (Saturday Night Live) The Land Shark (also land shark, landshark, LandShark) was a recurring character from the sketch comedy television series "Saturday Night Live". The character first appeared in the fall of 1975 as a response to the release of the film "Jaws", and the subsequent hysteria over purported shark sightings. It was one of the most popular and imitated sketches of "SNL"'s first season. The Land Shark first appeared in a sketch entitled "Jaws II" on the Candice Bergen-hosted episode (season 1 episode 4), which originally aired on November 8, 1975. As narrated by Don Pardo (the