SNL50: The Anniversary Celebration,” airs live from New York on Sunday beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern and 5 p.m. Pacific.

On October 11, 1975, people tuning into the debut of a late-night comedy show saw something unlike any TV variety ...

How featuring the rushed and imperfect work of brilliant, stressed-out comics made SNL a comedy bastion.

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 ...

4) The highest grossing film in 1975, the year Saturday Night Live premiered, was Steven Spielberg thriller Jaws. 6) The ...

What happened during SNL50? Three hours of slapdash sketch comedy and celebrity cameos, such as Eddie Murphy, Tina Fey, Paul ...

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

Chase was the first of SNL‘s Not Ready for Prime Time Players to become a superstar in 1975 and, thus, also the first cast member to quit the show. Chase exited Saturday Night Live in the middle ...

With lots of breaking, montages, missed cues, and recycled bits, "Saturday Night Live's" 50th anniversary ... plenty of moments even the most casual “SNL” viewer could enjoy — although ...