If Lorne Michaels is the father of "Saturday Night Live," then Rosie Shuster is its criminally under-acknowledged mother.

To name your favorite "SNL" sketch is to immediately date yourself. Whether it's because you remember watching one of the ...

Live” turns 50 years old, NBC News’ Joe Fryer speaks with the show’s first-ever musical performer, Janis Ian, about her ...

NBC is celebrating the legacy of “Saturday Night Live” on Feb. 15 with the first-ever “SNL” telecast airing at 11:30 p.m.

In a feast of special programming, NBC is celebrating the 50th anniversary of "Saturday Night Live" this weekend.

Lovers of music on “SNL” have other chances to celebrate. NBC has scheduled “SNL50: The Homecoming Concert” for Friday night.

The in-house documentaries produced for the “SNL’s” 50th anniversary stay on-message — warm and laudatory — but have ...

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 ...

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

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

NEW YORK — “Saturday Night Live” was built with a cast of young no-names performing countercultural comedy. Fifty years later ...

As the show gears up to celebrate its milestone, here are 12 moments over the past five decades when the show didn't just reflect pop culture — it drove it.