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They were on a mission from God.
Chris Higgins|
“I don’t write for felt,” writer Michael O'Donoghue said, and John Belushi often called them “mucking Fuppets.”
Ellen Gutoskey|
As ‘SNL’ celebrates its 50th anniversary, let’s take a look back at the one-time cast members who left us too soon.
Caroline Donnelly|
Miskel Spillman won the late night mainstay’s “Anyone Can Host Contest” in part by saying she needed “one more cheap thrill.”
Colin Patrick|
If comedy was like a run for president, then the hallowed halls of Saturday Night Live would be the White House.
Orrin Konheim|
“Saturday Night Live” has rejected some pretty notable future stars, but celebrities like Johnny Knoxville and Amy Sedaris actually flipped the script.
Jennifer M Wood|
Here are a few celebrities who went so far that most of them never appeared in the hallowed halls of 8H again.
Sean Hutchinson|
Live from New York, it’s … none of these celebrities (though not for lack of trying).
Jennifer M Wood|
In the pantheon of SNL sketches-turned-feature films, there are good ideas (‘Wayne’s World’), bad ideas (‘It’s Pat’), and batted-about ideas that never made it to the silver screen.
Jennifer M Wood|
Live from New York … are some surprising facts about ‘Saturday Night Live,’ which made its debut on October 11, 1975.
mentalfloss .com|
You might already know that Tina Fey and Steve Martin are in SNL’s Five-Timers Club. But what about Drew Barrymore and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson?
Ellen Gutoskey|
Brendan Fraser shouting "Bedazzled!" over SNL’s closing instrumental music confused everyone, including host Rob Lowe.
Ellen Gutoskey|
For more than 30 years, 'SNL' cast members have regularly cited Steven Seagal as the worst host the show has ever had—an ignoble distinction for a program that's been on the air for half a century.
Jake Rossen|
How long has Kenan Thompson been on 'SNL'? Nineteen seasons—and counting.
Ellen Gutoskey|
The former MythBusters host and co-founder of the National STEM Festival tells us what emerging tech she thinks kids today won’t be able to live without—and what we can expect from the podcast she’s launching with fellow MythBuster Tory Belleci.
Erin McCarthy|
The country music icon spent years trying to get higher than any musician had ever been.
Jake Rossen|
From "scrabbling games" to hunting hares, these old Easter traditions have fallen out of fashion.
Jane Alexander|
It’s time to play Tune Twist, where we translate the lyrics of popular songs into multiple languages and then back into English. Can you figure out what the song is, or who performed it?
mentalfloss .com|
The days of police badges and lightsaber spoons lurking in boxes are over. Kids now get QR codes. What happened?
Jake Rossen|
From what he originally called the fix-up sci-fi collection to the words he invented in its stories, here’s what you need to know about Asimov’s ‘I, Robot,’ which turns 75 this year.
Lorna Wallace|
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