Saturday Night Live (SNL) is an American late-night live sketch comedy variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Michaels and Dick Ebersol that airs on NBC. The show's premiere was hosted by George Carlin on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title NBC's Saturday Night.

The current logo for Saturday Night Live.. The long-running American late-night sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL) first premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, and its fiftieth and most recent season premiered on September 28, 2024. Created by Lorne Michaels, who is the original and current showrunner, its history has been shaped by its large and constantly-changing cast of performers ...

Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a late-night sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. It premiered on the NBC Television network on October 11, 1975, under the title NBC's Saturday Night. The show often satirizes contemporary American popular culture and politics.

Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a popular American television program. It has been broadcast on Saturday nights since October 11, 1975. [1] It is one of the longest-running television programs in American television. [2] It is broadcast from NBC studios in New York City. The name comes from the fact that the program is aired live on Saturday ...

6 days ago · Saturday Night Live is an American sketch comedy and variety television series that began airing on the National Broadcasting Company in 1975. It became one of the longest-running programs in television and is a landmark in American TV.

Saturday Night Live: Created by Lorne Michaels. With The Saturday Night Live Band, Don Pardo, Darrell Hammond, Kenan Thompson. Actors, comedians and artists get together to perform short, hilarious skits on current, intelligent and at times ridiculous topics.

Aug 17, 2023 · Watch Saturday Night Live Saturdays at 11:30/10:30c on NBC and Peacock, streaming next day on Peacock.

Dec 12, 2023 · Gilda Radner was the first Saturday Night Live performer ever cast. Scouted by the show's creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels, who was familiar with her work in the Toronto branch...

Feb 13, 2025 · NEW YORK (AP) — Tune into the Oct. 11, 1975 premiere episode of “Saturday Night Live” — then without “live” in its name — and you may be instantly surprised at some of the bones of the show that are still intact today.. There’s the cold open skit, featuring cast members John Belushi and Michael O’Donoghue. At its end, Chevy Chase gingerly walks by the prone bodies of the two ...

Feb 15, 2025 · Like Sally O’Malley, Molly Shannon’s spry, bouffant-sporting quinquagenarian, “Saturday Night Live” is 50 years old, limber for its age and a little too proud of itself. It isn’t hard to ...