As “Saturday Night Live” turns 50 years old, NBC News’ Joe Fryer speaks with the show’s first-ever musical performer, Janis Ian, about her experience on “SNL.” The “SNL” 50 special show will air in ...

Janis Ian performed as the musical guest on the premiere episode of Saturday Night Live with a raging fever and strep throat. “Everybody in the cast was very nervous because they’d never done live TV, ...

On October 11, 1975, George Carlin hosted the very first episode of Saturday Night Live, and he kicked things off in a way ...

Singer/songwriter Janis Ian will always have a special place in my heart. Janis was the first artist I ever interviewed at the beginning of my journalism career. It was 1994, after the release of what ...

The "Parallel Mothers" star spoke to Salon about her fourth Oscar nod and the scene she was "terrified" to shoot ...

This is FRESH AIR. Janis Ian, the singer-songwriter who had her first hit record as a teenager in the 1960s, is the subject of a new documentary, "Janis Ian: Breaking Silence, " now available to ...