The song — titled “50 Years” — toggled between sincerity and quips, including the line: “50 years of castmembers saying ‘I think our cast is the greatest of all time,’ but we all ...

For 50 years now, "Saturday Night Live" has been putting on a 90-minute mix of live comedy sketches, beloved commercial parodies, and musical acts, each episode headlined by a celebrity host.

“Over the course of 50 years, 894 people have hosted ‘Saturday Night Live,’ and it amazes me that only two of them have committed murder.” Later, on the night’s “Weekend Update ...

“It seems strange to talk about ‘Saturday Night Live’ as a single show that’s been around for 50 years,” says The New York Times’s chief television critic James Poniewozik. “It ...