The perfect “Saturday Night Live” ad parody combines a few factors: mimicking the tone and format of commercials, a fitting product, and a punch line that brings the whole thing home.

The very first episode of Saturday Night Live in many ways barely resembles the show we know so well today. But one building block of that episode has survived for nearly 50 years: the commercial ...

John Mulaney — one of "SNL's' steadiest performers over the years — got several of them in, such as "Over the course of 50 years, 894 people have hosted ‘Saturday Night Live,’ and it ...

The late-night institution begins its 50th season on Saturday. Here’s how The New York Times and others covered its debut in 1975.

Saturday Night Live wasn’t Saturday Night Live, both literally and spiritually, when it premiered on Oct. 11, 1975. Weeks earlier, ABC had debuted a prime-time variety show called Saturday Night ...