'Saturday Night Live' premiered 50 years ago on Oct. 11, 1975 Christopher Rudolph is a contributing writer for PEOPLE. He previously covered entertainment at The Advocate, HuffPost, Logo News, MTV ...

CHICAGO – The first sketch in “Saturday Night Live” history, entitled “Wolverines,” flashed across the NBC-TV screens at 11:30pET, live from New York City on October 11th, 1975. Besides show writer ...

After nearly half a century of reinventing what’s “live from New York,” Saturday Night Live is doing the unthinkable: recruiting its next roster, not from the comedy stages but from our content feeds.

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Now that SNL is back for its 51st season, here are the best SNL characters in the 50 years of Saturday Night Live. Of course, these things are subjective. Comedy, like beauty, is in the eye of the ...

Bishop, 73, still has the broken instrument, which was signed by the movie's cast Universal Pictures Stephen Bishop still owns the guitar that John Belushi smashed against a wall in Animal House.

Saturday Night Live returned this weekend for the premiere of its 51st season, and took a shot at Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in the process. The cold open, which featured longtime cast member ...

Saturday Night Live opened its 51st season with a skit skewering Donald Trump‘s crackdown on late-night TV, as the president (James Austin Johnson) warned that “daddy’s watching.” The skit also ...

For 50 years Saturday Night Live has been poking fun at popular culture, making audiences laugh, and opening its stage to exceptional music artists. The show was created by Lorne Michaels, and ...

NBC’s Saturday Night Live thrives on skewering pop culture, so it was only natural for the show’s first episode since May to acknowledge one of the biggest phenomena to emerge during its summer hiatus ...

Bad Bunny is hosting “Saturday Night Live” this week, and some fans are hoping he revisits one of his past skits. When Pedro Pascal hosted “SNL” in February 2023, he played the overbearing mother of ...

The great expansion of the John Wick universe could be set to include an unlikely spinoff: an original samurai Western. As part of a Variety article on up-and-coming screenwriters, Austin Everett, who ...