Live" celebrates its 50th anniversary, USA TODAY Sports chooses our favorite sketches - from Michael Jordan to Peyton Manning ...

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

The news parody has launched comedy careers and courted controversy. Here, Lorne Michaels, Chevy Chase, Tina Fey, Michael Che and others recount its influential history.

But one building block of that episode has survived for nearly 50 years: the commercial parody that follows the host’s monologue. Back in October of 1975, George Carlin’s routine about the differences ...

From Laraine Newman and Molly Shannon to Mikey Day and Chloe Fineman, we asked veteran cast members to dish on what viewers ...

Will Ferrell once worried that his affectionate portrayal of George W. Bush on “S.N.L.” had helped the Texan win the White ...

The iconic comedy show will celebrate its 50th birthday Feb. 16 with a 3-hour-long, alumni-loaded live special.

Chevy Chase, Eddie Murphy, Gilda Radner (1946 - 1989), Bill Murray; and bottom Jane Curtain, Dan Aykroyd, Laraine Newman, ...

There’s too much lore, too many feelings, too much to celebrate and far too much to complain about. Yet like “SNL” itself, ...

It gave us Eddie Murphy, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray and more. But as the sketch show turns 50 with an all-star special, who’s laughing now?

NBC will re-air the first "Saturday Night Live" show from Oct. 11, 1975. The late comedian George Carlin hosted the ...

NBC is celebrating Saturday Night Live's 50-year history with a three-hour prime-time special airing at 8 p.m. ET on Sunday night.