In a feast of special programming, NBC is celebrating the 50th anniversary of “Saturday Night Live” this weekend.
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FILE - Lorne Michaels attends the Apple Original Film premiere of"Killers of the Flower Moon" at Alice Tully Hall on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, in New York. FILE - Lorne Michaels poses in the press room with the award for outstanding variety sketch series for"Saturday Night Live" at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019, in Los Angeles. FILE -"Saturday Night Live" host Bill Murray, a former cast member, is pictured with producer Lorne Michaels, left, during rehearsals on March 19, 1987, in New York.
He recognized, as author Susan Morrison writes in the biography “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live,” due to be released Tuesday, that “just about every person who has ever watched SNL believes that its funniest years were the ones when they were in high school.”
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