It was never a question whether or not Amy Poehler would join the cast of Saturday Night Live, but she still had to audition like everyone else.

"Saturday Night Live" creator Lorne Michaels has donated his career archive to the Harry Ransom Center cultural archive at the University of Texas. "Saturday Night Live" creator Lorne Michaels has donated his career archive to the Harry Ransom Center cultural archive at the University of Texas. "Saturday Night Live" creator Lorne Michaels has donated his career archive to the Harry Ransom Center cultural archive at the University of Texas. The American Library Association has tracked a national surge in book bans over the past several years, with Texas at the forefront.

NBC's archetypal comedy program "Saturday Night Live" should have died in 1985, a decade after a volcanic debut that launched stars such as John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase and Gilda Radner. And yet a half-century later, producer Lorne Michaels and his merry maniacs are still at it. What gives?

It features a slew of cast members including Amy Poehler, Andy Samberg ... It’s an in-depth look at the Lorne Michaels-run show, which launched in 1975 and celebrates its 50 th anniversary with a primetime special on Sunday, February 16.

Lorne Michaels donates his "Saturday Night Live" archive to UT Austin's Harry Ransom Center, showcasing nearly 50 years of TV history.

Lorne Michaels, the creator of the long-running sketch comedy television show “Saturday Night Live” donated the materials from the show that launched

Four-part docuseries starts as a typical self-congratulatory tribute. Then it drills down to specific highs and lows, and delivers the goods

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Lorne Michaels, the creator of the long-running ... Eddie Murphy, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and others. It also includes some of 80-year-old Michaels' personal correspondence.

Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon, Seth Meyers, Molly Shannon, Kenan Thompson and Bowen Yang sit down with PEOPLE to talk about how they got to Studio 8H, their biggest laughs on the show and how hard it wa

The missed "SNL" opportunity came shortly after Stewart had served five months at the Federal Prison Camp in West Virginia for fraud and conspiracy in an insider trading case in 2

Martha Stewart has her sights set on hosting Saturday Night Live after previously being stopped. After Jimmy Fallon asked Stewart, 83, on the Monday, January 27, episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon whether she would be open to the gig,

For many celebrities, there's a relatively small window in which they are considered for hosting Saturday Night Live. One celebrity had that window slammed shut