‘Saturday Night Live’ celebrates 40-year run with massive retrospective – Fox News

Feb. 15, 2015: Chevy Chase attends the SNL 40th Anniversary Special at Rockefeller Plaza in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) NEW YORK –  With a measure of anniversary hoopla perhaps exceeded only by the nation s bicentennial, Saturday Night Live celebrated its 40th season on Sunday with a 3½-hour gala of stars, laughs and memories. It aired live from New York s Studio 8H at NBC, which has been SNL HQ since premiering on a Saturday night in October 1975. It was a black-tie event so jammed with SNL alumni and other celebs they fueled an hour-long red carpet event before the big show even began. Some 80 names were listed in the opening credits. It started with a medley of catchphrases, music and characters performed by Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake that concluded, inevitably, with their pronouncement, Live from New York, it s Saturday Night! Who was the rightful host? Steve Martin stepped up first, but was joined one by one by stars including Peyton Manning, Tom Ha
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