SNL has kept the same format for 50 years: a guest host, a musical guest and wild comedy sketches by a troupe of regulars. At the time, most TV shows appealed to a wide audience, Tropiano says.

The Coneheads were created by Dan Aykroyd. The extraterrestrial family was initially conceived by Dan Aykroyd, who was an ...

Farley isn’t the only then-next-gen SNL cast member to appear. In fact, until Grown Ups 2 inched past it decades later, Coneheads held a record for the most SNL alumni to appear in a narrative ...

2. Coneheads (1993) Our favorite “SNL” extraterrestrial family was a natural fit for feature film treatment. Beldar, Prymaat, and Connie Conehead (Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, and Michelle Burke ...

But when you actually look through the numbers of the “SNL” YouTube page, that’s not what you find. Overall, the most watched “SNL” sketches tend to be far more modern.

Aykroyd’s most popular recurring “SNL” sketches include the Blues Brothers, the Coneheads, and the Super Bass-O-Matic commercials. He starred on the sketch comedy show from 1975-1979.

Saturday Night Live is fairly notorious for being hit or miss, all sketch comedy is. But, when it comes to the 11 movies that have resulted from popular SNL sketches, it’s far more miss than hit ...

Former "Saturday Night Live" cast members, guest hosts and performers reunited for the "SNL" 50th anniversary celebration Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025.

NEW YORK (AP) — Live from New York! It’s 50 seasons later for “SNL.”. The landmark NBC sketch comedy show “Saturday Night Live” premiered Oct. 11, 1975, with drop-dead dark humor and ...

“Saturday Night Live” alum Dan Aykroyd has some glowing words for his former boss Lorne Michaels and the late-night show’s glitzy 50th anniversary special that took place over the weekend.