In tandem, these two events (and some others) have sent some fans back in time to the 1980s. Specifically, they’re remembering 1983, the year that the first final Star Wars movie, Star Wars: Return of ...

Live from New York! It's 50 seasons later for “SNL.” The landmark NBC sketch comedy show “Saturday Night Live” premiered Oct. 11, 1975, with drop-dead dark humor and pratfalls, George Carlin as host ...

Belushi and Aykroyd starred in the very first feature film based on an "SNL" sketch (1980's "The Blues Brothers") and, even though Belushi was an indelible comedic talent in his own right, it was ...

Gilbert Gottfried only appeared on “SNL” during the 1980-1981 season, around the time that creator Lorne Michaels temporarily left the show. “I didn’t like the writers, and the writers hated me,” he ...

Unless you’re an SNL completist or a 55-plus fan who stayed up late in 1980 to catch Rodney Dangerfield, you likely haven’t seen one of the most offensive SNL sketches in the show’s history.

John Goodman was one of the biggest and most beloved TV stars of the 1980s and ‘90s due to his long-running role in the ABC sitcom Roseanne, but he was turned down for another popular show just ahead ...