Live' veterans participated in a "Tonight Show Joke Off," a riff on SNL's "Weekend Update" segment during which they battled it out for the best punchlines.

NEW YORK — “Saturday Night Live” was built with a cast of young no-names performing countercultural comedy. Fifty years later ...

I wrote a couple plays, and I did a lot of musicals. SNL was my first television job—a job paying me more than I had ever ...