“Saturday Night Live” was built with a cast of young no-names performing countercultural comedy. Fifty years later, it is firmly part of the culture, dictating mainstream comedy instead of throwing ...

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As the show gears up to celebrate its milestone, here are 12 moments over the past five decades when the show didn't just reflect pop culture — it drove it.

From Will Ferrell to Tina Fey, Kristen Wiig to Bowen Yang, the past two decades of "SNL" have featured some of the best cast members in all of its 50 years.

Special Guests: Maya Rudolph, Jim Gaffigan, Andy Samberg, Dana Carvey, Akiva Schaffer A year after comedian Nate Bargatze's stellar SNL debut, he returned with a monologue about his community ...

Gasteyer grew up in Washington, D.C., and was friends with President Jimmy Carter’s daughter, Amy, so imagine her shock when she caught the president taking in Dan Aykroyd’s impression of him when she ...

"I'm gonna say natural causes!" she says enthusiastically. Dana Carvey, who was part of the SNL cast from 1986 to 1993, concludes the segment with the cheeriest pitch of them all. "Gene Frenkle ...

Dana Carvey, who was part of the SNL cast from 1986 to 1993, concludes the segment with the cheeriest pitch of them all. "Gene Frenkle, he was Jeff Bezos' favorite cowbell artist," he says. "Became ...