The high-stakes audition process for the sketch show, which celebrates its 50th anniversary on Feb. 16, is notorious in its ...

Many bits that comedians used in their auditions have ended up as iconic Saturday Night Live sketches, from Kristen Wiig’s ...

Dane Cook knows he wasn't the best Saturday Night Live host ... the comic stood alongside Kristen Wiig as her popular Target Lady character, a recurring bit that always got laughs.

As a result, the “SNL” cold open was one of its traditional “five-timers club” sketches ... (along with husband Colin Jost), Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Emma Stone, and John Mulaney ...

He has also appeared in 11 episodes in cameo roles (the most recent being Kristen Wiig’s April 6 ... it would have been cameos and returning sketches. It isn’t necessarily a bad thing ...

Fey, Baldwin, Stone, Melissa McCarthy, Johansson, Kristen Wiig, John Mulaney and even Jimmy Fallon all got to tell a joke or two each, the best perhaps ... an elf in 10 sketches and joking that ...

Peacock’s new docuseries has the massive task of defining a show that has defined culture for decades, as it peers into cast auditions, the writers room, the iconic cowbell sketch and the 1985-1986 ...

It was inspired by [Tom Hanks]' funny/sweet impression ... Scarlett Johansson, Kristen Wiig, Paul Rudd, and Tina Fey, with some of them also appearing in sketches throughout the episode.

Short is then introduced to the other members of the club who include Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin (who had a number 17 on his jacket), Scarlett Johansson, Kristen Wiig ... one of the best cold opens ...

Ahead of February's 50th anniversary show, Peacock's four-episode documentary takes you on a star-guided tour of "SNL's" ...