How featuring the rushed and imperfect work of brilliant, stressed-out comics made SNL a comedy bastion.

As SNL turns 50, Bowen Yang, Terry Sweeney, Paula Pell and other gay writers and performers look back at the show’s LGBTQ ...

But one building block of that episode has survived for nearly 50 years: the commercial parody that follows the host’s monologue. Back in October of 1975, George Carlin’s routine about the differences ...