"SNL" continues because of Lorne Michaels — and more. On the eve of 50th anniversary of the NBC sketch show we look forward ...

Michaels created the show and was originally a writer and producer. Barring his hiatus in the '80s between seasons six and 10 ...

Laraine Newman, now 72, was an original SNL cast member and writer until 1980, and then turned her focus to work as a journalist and with films like Invaders from Mars (1986), Coneheads (1993) and The ...

Paul Simon and Sabrina Carpenter duetted on Simon’s “Homeward Bound” to open the show, five-decade “Saturday Night Live” ...

There's the cold open skit, featuring cast members John Belushi and ... 30 during that first season and turned 80 last fall — ...

Here are some of the cast members who did not attend the 50th-anniversary special: Bill Hader was most notably not present at ...

Andy Samberg returned for the "SNL50" special in a musical digital short about the crippling anxiety of working at "Saturday ...

The most recent “Saturday Night Live” sketch to go viral — or at least, the most recent one that multiple of this writer’s own friends sent to him — was the type of joke that you could easily find by ...

Kenan Thompson’s incredible 22-year run as a Saturday Night Live cast member will never be replicated. While he deserves all the love in the world for his longevity alone, Thompson is so much ...

Saturday Night Live will celebrate its 50th season with ... While we’ll never forget cast members like Will Ferrell, Gilda Radner, Eddie Murphy, Maya Rudolph and Kate McKinnon, what about ...