What is performing or writing for "Saturday Night Live" really like? TODAY.com talked to past and present cast to learn what really goes on behind the scenes.

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Saturday Night Live is celebrating its five decades with SNL50: The Anniversary Special, a three-hour event airing Sunday ...

As SNL turns 50, Bowen Yang, Terry Sweeney, Paula Pell and other gay writers and performers look back at the show’s LGBTQ ...

From Laraine Newman and Molly Shannon to Mikey Day and Chloe Fineman, we asked veteran cast members to dish on what viewers ...

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Live nears its official 50th anniversary, the pageantry and buildup around the big event has reminded me of something fairly unfunny: a royal jubilee. It’s fascinating to consider how an anarchic ...

On show days, you’d eat dinner upstairs in the NBC cafeteria. One Saturday early on, Eric Slovin, my friend and writing ...

Whenever he appears on SNL anniversaries, he never comes off like it’s enough that he showed up. He commits, he takes chances ...

The big picture: Fifty cast members and writers from Second City have been hired at "SNL." Plus, a handful more did comedy ...

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