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and off-air turmoil in between. Why did Bill Murray call out Chevy Chase on Season 2? What made Dana Carvey believe Mike Myers stole his Lorne Michaels impression? Well, with Season 50 swiftly approaching on Sept. 28, it’s time to look back on all the messy moments.Season 2 of “SNL” was back and better than ever when the premiere episode aired Sept.

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The biggest controversies in ‘Saturday Night Live’ history

The NBC sketch comedy series premiered on Oct. 11, 1975, with the goal of making people laugh — and mission accomplished! After all, the series is about to return for its milestone 50th season.But over the past 49 years, “SNL” has also drawn criticism for its long list of controversial moments.Unfiltered hosts, badly behaved musical guests and game-changing firings have caused Lorne Michaels’ TV baby to make headlines for all the wrong reasons.Here are the biggest controversies in “Saturday Night Live” history.Fear was the musical guest during the 1981 Halloween episode that went completely off the rails.

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Jelly Roll is on SNL this weekend. What do tickets cost to see him live?

Jelly Roll is everywhere these days.On Saturday, Sept. 28, the larger than life country star is slated to serve as the musical guest on “Saturday Night Live’s” 50th season premiere.Unbelievably enough, he’s also scheduled to headline at New York City’s Global Citizen Festival earlier that afternoon.The day before, Friday, Sept.

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Lorne Michaels reacts to Ashlee Simpson’s ‘SNL’ lip-sync disaster in unaired clip: ‘There’s just egg out there now’

infamous 2004 lip-sync disaster.A recent episode of the “60 Minutes: A Second Look podcast” features never-before-heard audio from Michaels, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Seth Meyers and Darrell Hammond during that episode, which aired Oct. 23, 2004. That same week, “60 Minutes” was doing a feature on “SNL,” and they captured Michaels’ reaction.

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‘SNL’ to kick off 50th season with Coldplay, Stevie Nicks, Chappell Roan and more

Saturday Night Live (SNL) has announced the host and performer line-up for the first five episodes of season 50 – see the full roster below.Last night, the long-running late-night live sketch comedy variety show announced that it will return for its 50th season later this month (September 28), and has shared the line-up for its first five episodes.To kick off its historic 50th season, SNL will be starting strong with some of the biggest names in music and entertainment. The season premiere will be hosted by Jean Smart, with a live performance from Jelly Roll.

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‘SNL’ cast mocks Lorne Michaels at Emmys 2024 — claims he’s lost a staggering 85 times

76th Emmy Awards from the Peacock Theater on Sunday night. The comedians honored the long-running NBC comedy sketch show “Saturday Night Live,” which will enter its fifth decade on Sept. 28.“We heard something backstage that needs to be addressed,” Rudolph said.“Now before later,” Wiig, 51, chimed in.

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How to Watch ‘Colin Jost & Michael Che: New York After Dark’ Live: Time, Live Stream

the streamer is set to broadcast its first-ever live comedy special. The evening will be hosted by mainstays behind the “SNL” Weekend Update desk, Colin Jost and Michael Che. Other comics, particularly NYC club comics, will be showcased during “Colin Jost & Michael Che Present: New York After Dark,” but they’re keeping names under wraps.

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‘SNL’ star Chloe Troast exits before Season 50: ‘This was not my choice’

NBC sketch comedy series ahead of Season 50 “was not my choice.”“Hey everyone! I wanted to let you know that I will not be on ‘SNL’ next season,” she wrote in a TikTok video. “This was not my choice, I wish I was there getting to be with my friends,” Troast added. “It truly felt like a second home.

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‘Saturday Night’ review: A madcap backstage ode to Lorne Michaels’ legendary show

a madcap comedy about the 90-minute dash leading up to the 1975 debut episode of “SNL,” the show’s famously enigmatic creator is lionized. Michaels, the most important behind-the-scenes comedic force of the past 50 years, is placed on an innovator pedestal alongside the likes of Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, only without their personal downsides.He’s portrayed as an optimistic young underdog with an improbably bold vision: a completely live, weekly sketch series starring inexperienced, unpolished nobodies in a desert island of time-slots.His “This is Sparta!” speech comes during the climax, when Lorne (Gabriel LaBelle) is grilled by NBC exec David Tebet (Willem Dafoe) about what “Saturday Night Live” exactly is.Lorne, finding his confidence in real time, tells doubting David it’s discovering a hot new comic at the back of a bar downtown, or being swept up by the music at a tucked-away jazz club.“It’s everything you think is going to happen when you move to the city,” says a then-30-year-old Michaels.

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Will Ferrell expresses regret for dressing up as a woman on ‘SNL’

Will Ferrell has admitted that he regrets dressing up as a woman on Saturday Night Live.The actor and comedian featured in the Janet Reno’s Fantasies sketch in season 23 of the NBC variety show in 1997/98, which saw Ferrell dress in drag as the late attorney general.Speaking in an interview with The New York Times‘ The Interview podcast, Ferrell said: “That’s something I wouldn’t choose to do now.”He went on to say that he’s certain there’s “a fair amount” of sketches from his SNL tenure “where you’d lament the choice”, before joking: “I mean, in a way, the cast – you’re kind of given this assignment. So I’m going to blame the writers.”Former SNL head writer Harper Steele also expressed regret over Ferrell’s sketch, adding: “This kind of bums me out.

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Would Colin Jost and Michael Che replace Lorne Michaels on ‘SNL’?

Howard Stern on his SiriusXM show, the host asked Colin Jost, 42, and Michael Che, 41, if the two “Weekend Update” hosts would consider taking over for “SNL” creator Lorne Michaels, 79, in the midst of rumors that Michaels may retire after the show’s upcoming season, its 50th. “Could you imagine having to do that? I don’t know that any – I don’t know how – you do that job and not be Lorne,” said Che, who has been on the show since 2013. Jost and Che were also the show’s co-head writers from 2017 to 2022.

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Natasha Rothwell on ‘How to Die Alone’ and Her Return to ‘The White Lotus’

Insecure as Issa Rae’s most quotable friend, Kelli Prenny, CPA and meme machine. Also a writer and producer on the series, responsible for hatching some of those indelible lines, Rothwell earned an Emmy nomination with the show’s 2020 nod for Outstanding Comedy Series.

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Former ‘SNL’ star Punkie Johnson explains abrupt exit: ‘That show is for a different type of person’

first openly queer black woman, is opening up about why she left. While talking to fellow “SNL” alums David Spade and Dana Carvey on their “Fly on the Wall” podcast, Johnson addressed her decision to leave the show ahead of its landmark 50th season.“I talked to my team. I was like, ‘Look, I don’t really know if I belong at this job, so maybe I should step away,’” Johnson told Spade and Carvey.

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Maya Rudolph is confused about ‘SNL’ return to play Kamala Harris: ‘No one has asked me’

will return to her old “Saturday Night Live” stomping grounds to reprise her role as Vice President Kamala Harris, who is the Democratic presidential nominee in the 2024 election. But, during a “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” interview with RuPaul, who filled in for Kimmel on Monday, Rudolph did not confirm that she’ll return. “Will we be seeing Kamala on ‘SNL’ anytime soon?” RuPaul asked.Rudolph replied by joking, “Interesting that you brought this up, because no one has asked me.”Rudolph, who was on “SNL” from 2000 to 2007, first played Harris on the Dec.

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SNL alum Victoria Jackson says she has inoperable cancer

Saturday Night Live alum Victoria Jackson has revealed that she is battling an inoperable cancer and has roughly three years to live.On Wednesday (August 14), the comedian took to her official Instagram account to share a new video of “Is the Cancer Back?” series in which she disclosed that it is in fact back. Jackson previously battled breast cancer back in 2016.In the video, she revealed that the cancer diagnosis was positive and that it was unfortunately inoperable.

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Sydney Sweeney told ‘SNL’ co-star she didn’t need an intimacy coordinator for sex sketch: “I’m on ‘Euphoria'”

Sydney Sweeney told her SNL cast mate Bowen Yang that she didn’t need an intimacy coordinator for their sex scene, because she’s used to far more explicit stuff on Euphoria.On Tuesday’s episode The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the gay comedian said the strangest experience he’s had on the long-running series over the last six years was pretending to be straight for an intimate scene with Sweeney.“One of the weirdest was something I only have myself to blame for,” Yang said. “We wrote a sketch called ‘Bowen’s Straight’ where… I exerted my range, I played a heterosexual version of myself seducing Sydney Sweeney.”Admitting that he was charmed by Sweeney off camera, he said: “She is such a good, committed actor that she made me believe she’s in love with me.

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Bowen Yang says male ‘SNL’ host made cast members ‘cry’: ‘He hated the ideas’

Watch What Happens Live,” Yang recounted what happened but declined to name the person — although he did let it slip that it was a man. “This man, this person, this host made multiple cast members cry on Wednesday before the table read because he hated the ideas,” said Yang.

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We found the best prices on tickets to see Chevy Chase live in 2024

trailer for the upcoming “Saturday Night” film, Chevy Chase (played by Cory Michael Smith) takes one of his trademark tumbles backstage.“Sorry, I tripped over my p—-,” the character smirks.In that brief, humorous moment, it’s hard not to flash back to the deadpan comic’s legendary career. For us, we immediately conjured up images of Chase in “Caddyshack,” “Three Amigos” and, of course, “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.”Thankfully, Chevy hasn’t forgotten his most famous holiday film either.From Nov.

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Former ‘Saturday Night Live’ head writer Bob Tischler dead at 78

Saturday Night Live,” Bob Tischler, has died at age 78.Tischler’s son, Zeke, confirmed his father’s death to The New York Times on Monday. He told the outlet that the sketch comedy show writer died on July 13 at his home in Bodega Bay, California, following a battle with pancreatic cancer.

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‘Saturday Night’ trailer is officially live — and shows original 1975 cast in chaos before premiere episode

The trailer for director Jason Reitman’s movie about the 90 minutes leading up to the first-ever episode of “Saturday Night Live” in October 1975 was released Thursday.It shows the original cast of the sketch comedy series racing against the clock to put on the first show at Studio 8H.At the start of the trailer, an NBC page played by “Stranger Things” star Finn Wolfhard struggles to give out free tickets to the show.Gabriel LaBelle’s Lorne Michaels, the creator of “SNL,” tries to get past security at 30 Rock.The original cast — which includes Cory Michael Smith’s Chevy Chase, Dylan O’Brien’s Dan Aykroyd, Ella Hunt’s Gilda Radner, Lamorne Morris’ Garrett Morris, Matt Wood’s John Belushi, Emily Fairn’s Laraine Newman and Kim Matula’s Jane Curtin — are also dealing with conflict and disaster as they prepare to tape their first episode.NBC exec Dick Ebersol, played by Cooper Hoffman, tells Michaels that he doesn’t think the show is “ready.”“It doesn’t matter that we’re ready, it matters that it’s 11:30. That’s when we go on,” LaBelle’s Michaels responds.The cast of “Saturday Night” also includes Rachel Sennott as Rosie Schuster, Matthew Rhys as George Carlin, Jon Batiste as Billy Preston, Nicholas Braun as Jim Henson, Kaia Gerber as Jacqueline Carlin, Willem Dafoe as David Tebet, J.K.

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Steve Martin turns down offer from Lorne Michaels to play Kamala Harris’ VP pick Tim Walz on ‘SNL’: ‘I’d be struggling’

Steve Martin won’t be playing Tim Walz on season 50 of “SNL” despite fans outright begging him to do so. Martin spoke with the late night sketch show’s creator and producer Lorne Michaels after news broke that Kamala Harris chose the Minnesota governor and Martin look-alike as her vice presidential running mate but “politely and promptly” turned him down, according to The Los Angeles Times. “I wanted to say no and, by the way, he wanted me to say no,” Martin said of his call with Michaels.“I said, ‘Lorne, I’m not an impressionist.