In the end — well, not “the end,” but after a half century — “Saturday Night Live” went from being a shining beacon for the comedy counter culture to a full on representation of what popular culture ...

Many Jewish comedy greats got their start in the once-scrappy comedy sketch show, which celebrates its golden anniversary this weekend.

SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night” delves into cast auditions, “More Cowbell,” and a fateful season in which Lorne Michaels almost ...

NBC's archetypal comedy program "Saturday Night Live" should have died in 1985, a decade after a volcanic debut that launched stars such as John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase and Gilda Radner. And ...

They throw you in a lake," says Silverman, who was a 22-year-old stand-up comic when she joined the cast as a writer and featured player, "and you just have to learn to swim.” ...

These bits give you a great sense of how future legends prepped to become Not Ready for Prime Time Players, as well as glimpses of beloved characters ... only he and Nora Dunn would return ...

Fortunately, the sketch didn’t make the cut, and Ferrell refashioned it for Christopher Walken, who immortalized the character of ... Anthony Michael Hall and Nora Dunn struggled to find a ...

So he invented the character Gene Frenkle in a sketch he ... Robert Downey Jr., Jon Lovitz, and Nora Dunn. That might sound promising, but with the exception of an episode directed by Francis ...

By the nature of it being live, it's immediate and it's probably riskier,” Gasteyer says of SNL. “There's not a lot of time spent hand-wringing and wondering if someone's going to be offended.” ...

Here are eight samples of memorable space-themed comedies that made it past the pilot stage. Some are forgotten favorites; others are obscure memories and some we are still enjoying right now.