Earlier this year, Saturday Night Live celebrated 50 years on the air. But there was a time early in the show's history when things weren't working, and getting cancelled was a real possibility.

I thought SNL’s 50th Anniversary Special was pretty successful. It was packed full of member berries (a few too many sometimes), but it managed to earn some new laughs as well. Some of our favorite ...

Late comedian Phil Hartman welcomed two children with his wife Brynn Julie Tremaine is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has previously appeared in Food and ...

As someone who grew up enjoying Pee-wee Herman, I was very interested to learn about the man behind the man-child, Paul Reubens, in Pee-wee as Himself. Director Matt Wolf’s two-part documentary, now ...

More than 20 years after the untimely passing of comedy icon Phil Hartman, fans of the comedian still celebrate his work in films and television, especially his iconic work on Saturday Night Live and ...

Phil Hartman may not have had the hype during his SNL career that Dana Carvey, Mike Myers, Chris Rock and Adam Sandler received, but he was easily their equal in talent and importance to the show's ...

"Did you know there's a lot of talk in Washington about raising taxes on the so-called super-rich? As you can imagine, that idea doesn't sit to well with me," Hartman told the camera, wearing a cowboy ...

One of Saturday Night Live's funniest stars met one of the most tragic ends in Hollywood history — but what actually went down during Phil Hartman's final SNL appearance? Wisconsin Supreme Court judge ...