"Saturday Night Live" creator Lorne Michaels has donated his career archive to the Harry Ransom Center cultural archive at the University of Texas. "Saturday Night Live" creator Lorne Michaels has donated his career archive to the Harry Ransom Center cultural archive at the University of Texas. "Saturday Night Live" creator Lorne Michaels has donated his career archive to the Harry Ransom Center cultural archive at the University of Texas. The American Library Association has tracked a national surge in book bans over the past several years, with Texas at the forefront.

The sketch comedy show is celebrating 50 seasons with two documentaries and an upcoming prime-time special that reflect on its standing as an American institution.

S ince bursting onto the national stage as a featured player on Saturday Night Live over 20 years ago, Amy Poehler has won the hearts of millions. From Parks and Recreation’s ub

SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night' docuseries includes Amy Poehler, Pete Davidson, Molly Shannon, Tracy Morgan, and more.

Comedy slowly became rock ‘n’ roll,” says Joe Piscopo, a Saturday Night Live cast member between 1980 and 1984, in the opening episode of SNL 50: Beyond Saturday Night. The Peacock docuseries, which is exec produced by Morgan Neville,

There are books — the best of which is still “ Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live ” — and countless movies, including a 2010 documentary and a 2024 feature, both titled “Saturday Night,” and a slew of comedies derived from popular “SNL” sketches, notably “The Blues Brothers” and “ Wayne’s World .”

Wild and crazy guys, the van down by the river, and, of course, more cowbell – just some of the classic sketches shown in the new trailer released today for Peacock‘s four-part docuseries SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night.

The trailer, which features clips of ‘SNL’s’ most famous sketches, including “More Cowbell,” “Two Wild & Crazy Guys” and Chris Farley’s “Matt Foley/Van Down by the River,” teases the behind-the-scenes interviews with former and current “SNL” cast members like Amy Poehler, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Seth Meyers and Bowen Yang.

Lorne Michaels, the creator of the long-running sketch comedy television show "Saturday Night Live" has donated ... Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and others. It also includes some of 80-year-old Michaels ...

Beyond Saturday Night is a four-part docuseries honoring the legacy of SNL, with over 60 contributors, including SNL alumni, and covering decades of SNL history. Spotlighting some of the show's ...

After that, the show will take another break before returning in mid-February, when it will have a new episode that will be followed a Sunday night live broadcast of “SNL50: The Anniversary Special” on Feb. 16.

“SNL 50: Beyond Saturday Night” will be streaming exclusively on Peacock. There will be four installments of “SNL 50: Beyond Saturday Night,” and each episode lands at the same time on Thursday, Jan. 16. Here are the episode descriptions below, per Peacock.