SNL50 Beyond Saturday Night Trailer HD - streaming January 16, 2025 on Peacock - Plot Synopsis: SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night is a four-part documentary series honoring the legacy of SNL, with over 60 contributors, including SNL alumni, and covering decades of SNL history. Spotlighting some of the show’s most iconic elements, each episode delves into the rich history of SNL and pulls back the curtain on the audition process, the writers’ room, the fan favorite "More Cowbell” sketch and the pivotal season 11.
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00:00Anybody could do comedy. I could teach all y'all in here how to tell jokes and be comedy, but are you funny?
00:05SNL SNL SNL was the biggest show ever. There was nothing like it
00:14It's an American institution
00:22Any questions
00:24You may be wondering why you've never heard this story before I don't know what story you heard, but this is what happened
00:30It's fine. Let's just do the thing everything you're about to see has never been seen before hi here. We go. I'm not I'm Amy Poehler
00:37Okay, that's enough
00:39It all started coming in here to audition some people are so nervous. They can't even speak. It was terrifying my first audition
00:46I threw up. I think it's a miracle, and I'm sitting here right now
00:50This is beyond my wildest dreams that they're making a documentary about the cowbell sketch
00:55Do
00:57You think that the writers get credit they deserve absolutely not I don't think so no no oh dear
01:04You've really stepped on a landmine here. You're just thinking. There's no way this is gonna. Go smoothly 15 minutes or now
01:11Might be a bloodbath
01:13After a decade on the air SNL is on the brink of cancellation
01:17I didn't know that it'd be such a difficult year
01:20The weird year is the polite way to put it most people to say to me
01:23It was the bad. It was so bad that it could have been canceled I
01:29Still have nightmares about the stress of Saturday night. It is built on competition
01:37Can you be your authentic self it's a real dream come true it was everything I loved that show I was on it
01:44Live from New York live from New York live from New York
01:53Oh
01:56Boy