There are books — the best of which is still “ Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live ” — and countless movies, including a 2010 documentary and a 2024 feature, both titled “Saturday Night,” and a slew of comedies derived from popular “SNL” sketches, notably “The Blues Brothers” and “ Wayne’s World .”

NBC’s live sketch comedy variety show returns to our screens soon after a four-week break. Here’s who will be entertaining us.

Get ready to kick, and stretch, and kick! Saturday Night Live is turning 50! The legendary sketch show, which premiered on Oct. 11, 1975, is celebrating its anniversary early by serving SNL fans a feast of abundance that even Debbie Downer would be hard-pressed to refuse.

And it was “not because it portrayed him as heartless," according to The New Yorker's profile of the show's creator Lorne Michaels.

From the daily newsletter: how Lorne Michaels became the king of Saturday night. Plus: Trump’s Greenland gambit; a rare look at Terrence Malick; and Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, and the collapse of #MeToo.

Donald Trump’s SNL episode was the fourth of Season 41, airing back in 2015. It appears he was set for an approved-by-Michaels sketch in which the business mogul would be dressed up like a tree while standing next to Shel Silverstein’s titular Giving Tree,