Musician Dangerous Bunny shall be featured in Friday’s SNL live performance and Sunday’s stay particular. Right here he’s performing throughout his Most Needed Tour at Miami’s Kaseya Heart on Might 24, 2024.
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Saturday Night time Reside 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 shall 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 necessary is as a result of it is one of many few issues left in leisure that appears like an occasion,” stated Robert Smigel, a veteran author and producer on Saturday Night time Reside who’s labored on previous specials.
“A part of it’s clearly, you already know, the topicality and the sketches, what is going on to go proper, what is going on to go unsuitable. However with the musical acts, identical factor.”
Amy Poehler and Tina Fey visited Jimmy Fallon to speak concerning the particular occasions and to reminisce about their time as solid 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 Dangerous Bunny, Cher, Publish Malone, Miley Cyrus, Girl Gaga, Ms. Lauryn Hill, the Preservation Corridor Jazz Band and The B-52s, amongst many others.
HOW TO WATCH: The live performance shall be stay Friday at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor, will stream stay 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 episodeÂ
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 friends (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 shall 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 ParticularÂ
The anniversary particular is a stay, three-hour telecast that includes such solid 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’ll characteristic “a half-century value of sketches, solid members, hosts and different collaborators.”
HOW TO WATCH: SNL50: The Anniversary Particular airs stay at 8 p.m. EST on Sunday on NBC and Peacock.
It follows a red-carpet particular hosted by TV persona Willie Geist and former SNL solid member Leslie Jones that airs at 7 p.m. EST on NBC, E! and Peacock. The crimson carpet will even be obtainable on SNL‘s YouTube, Fb, Instagram, X and TikTok pages.
