Musician Unhealthy Bunny might be featured in Friday’s SNL live performance and Sunday’s dwell particular. Right here he’s performing throughout his Most Needed Tour at Miami’s Kaseya Middle on Could 24, 2024.
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Saturday Night time Stay is making an enormous deal out of its fiftieth anniversary. There have been a number of documentaries, a movie and, this weekend, three particular occasions: a live performance that might be live-streamed, a re-broadcast of the present’s first episode and an anniversary particular.
“One of many causes SNL remains to be so vital is as a result of it is one of many few issues left in leisure that appears like an occasion,” mentioned Robert Smigel, a veteran author and producer on Saturday Night time Stay who’s labored on previous specials.
“A part of it’s clearly, you recognize, the topicality and the sketches, what is going on to go proper, what is going on to go unsuitable. However with the musical acts, similar factor.”
Amy Poehler and Tina Fey visited Jimmy Fallon to speak concerning the particular occasions and to reminisce about their time as forged members:
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Friday: SNL50: The Homecoming Live performance
SNL50: The Homecoming Live performance celebrates SNL‘s legacy of musical performances. It is hosted by Jimmy Fallon and consists of Unhealthy Bunny, Cher, Publish Malone, Miley Cyrus, Woman Gaga, Ms. Lauryn Hill, the Preservation Corridor Jazz Band and The B-52s, amongst many others.
HOW TO WATCH: The live performance might be dwell Friday at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor, will stream dwell on Peacock at 8 p.m. EST, and can play in choose IMAX theaters across the nation, with tickets free and first-come-first-serve.
Saturday: The primary episode
NBC is rebroadcasting the Oct. 11, 1975, episode that began all of it — again when it was known as Saturday Night time. It was hosted by George Carlin and featured Billy Preston and Janis Ian because the musical visitors (and included a visitor look by Andy Kaufman … and The Muppets!).
A fictional model of the making of this episode was launched final fall.
This is a sketch from that first episode, “The Wolverines,” that includes John Belushi:
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HOW TO WATCH: The primary Saturday Night time episode might be broadcast at 11:30 p.m. EST Saturday on NBC and Peacock. An encore broadcast of Girls & Gents… 50 Years of SNL Music airs simply beforehand, at 8 p.m. EST.
SUNDAY: SNL50: The Anniversary Particular
The anniversary particular is a dwell, three-hour telecast that includes such forged alumni as Adam Sandler, Amy Poehler, Tracy Morgan and Will Ferrell, in addition to celebrities like Adam Driver and musicians like Paul Simon. NBC says on its web site that it’s going to function “a half-century price of sketches, forged members, hosts and different collaborators.”
HOW TO WATCH: SNL50: The Anniversary Particular airs dwell at 8 p.m. EST on Sunday on NBC and Peacock.
It follows a red-carpet particular hosted by TV character Willie Geist and former SNL forged member Leslie Jones that airs at 7 p.m. EST on NBC, E! and Peacock. The crimson carpet may also be accessible on SNL‘s YouTube, Fb, Instagram, X and TikTok pages.
