As the show gears up to celebrate its milestone, here are 12 moments over the past five decades when the show didn't just reflect pop culture — it drove it.

Actor and former "Saturday Night Live" star Bill Murray said performing on the famous sketch comedy show is very different ...

NEW YORK (AP) — “Saturday Night Live” was built with a cast of young no-names performing countercultural comedy. Fifty years ...

John Belushi had a unique taste for cars, with his Corvette standing out as a reflection of his sporty and classic style on ...

The drama of Reitman and co-writer Gil Kenan’s script focuses on getting the first episode of what would eventually be called ...

Released 45 years ago, the cult movie starred John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as Jake and Elwood Blues, and featured a string of hits and cameos from music legends Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and ...

John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was an American comedian, actor, and musician best known as one of the original cast members of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night ...

And the thing is, him and John Belushi, it’s so weird that Fear moment… That’s their only intersection right? Obviously Eddie worked with Aykroyd in Trading Places, but never Belushi.

Or was it 1974? By Laurie Gwen Shapiro One morning in the mid-1970s, a solemn announcement came over the intercom at Friends Seminary: “Noted person John Lennon is now in the meetinghouse.