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‘SNL’ Stars Reassure Lorne Michaels ‘It Gets Better’ After 85 Emmy Losses in 50th-Anniversary Tribute


'Saturday Night Live' celebrated its 50th anniversary with a tribute segment at the 2024 Emmy Awards.

As Saturday Night Live prepares to return for its 50th season later this month, decades-spanning SNL stars Bowen Yang, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, and Seth Meyers took the Emmys stage to pay tribute to the man who started it all. Full of humor, chaos and the magic of a revolution that almost wasn’t, we count down the minutes in real time to the famous words: ‘Live from New York, it’s Saturday night!’” Chaos and narcotics, raw talent and perseverance, [Lorne] Michaels’ stamina and the surprising luck of it all somehow led to the cameras capturing sheer anarchy loosed upon the world at 11:30 p.m.”

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