Comedy slowly became rock ‘n’ roll,” says Joe Piscopo, a Saturday Night Live cast member between 1980 and 1984, in the ...

Tom Hanks said that his first time hosting “SNL” in Season 11, he noticed, “The division between what worked and what didn’t ...

A treat for everyone who saw those early years, “Saturday Night” explains why some weeks are good and others aren’t. It also ...

Ultimately, Crystal was not able to get his sketch down to the runtime Lorne Michaels (played by Gabriel LaBelle) is hoping for, and the young comic was cut from the broadcast. I thought my career ...

NBC's archetypal comedy program "Saturday Night Live" should have died in 1985, a decade after a volcanic debut that launched ...

Peacock's terrific 50th anniversary retrospective focuses on the NBC show's auditions, writing process and ridiculous "More ...

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will present the 26th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to Conan O’Brien on March 23 ...

The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor was first given to comedian Richard Pryor in 1998. Over the years, it’s been handed ...

So, Dick Ebersol, who was running it then, not Lorne [Michaels], called it the George Steinbrenner year.” Short joined stars like Billy Crystal, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Christopher Guest ...