My earliest memories of “Saturday Night Live” were hearing my parents incorporate catchphrases from Dana Carvey’s Church Lady — “Could it be … Satan?” or “Well...
1985 “That’s the ticket” Uttered by Jon Lovitz’s pathological liar character, Tommy Flanagan, when he’d hit upon a particularly egregious whopper, this line was also Lovitz’s...
In one of the most popular sketches of the last few seasons of “Saturday Night Live,” Heidi Gardner lost it. Playing a sober-faced news anchor, she...
Timothée Chalamet has been busily proving his Bob Dylan bona fides ever since he was cast as the great songwriter in “A Complete Unknown.” He has...
If you’re “Saturday Night Live” and you need someone to play Alexander Hamilton in an opening sketch about the Founding Fathers, there’s only one person you...
Feb. 14, 1981 Funky 4 + 1 Invited by the host and “Rapture” hitmaker Debbie Harry of Blondie, the Funky 4 + 1 became the first...
Sarah Jornsay-Silverberg, who lives in Lisbon and owns a graphic design business, said writing parody songs is a longtime passion of hers, and she often pens...
Did anything come out of nowhere and surprise you? The Fear story was one that I wanted to know about forever. When I first got to...
When Dave Chappelle hosted “Saturday Night Live” in 2016, four days after the presidential election, he ended his monologue with a thought about President-elect Donald J....
“Saturday Night Live” begins the back half of its 50th season this weekend. Here, we kick off a series of features exploring and assessing its history...