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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 ...

At the center of all the televised festivities for the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live is Lorne Michaels, the ...