The retired Oscar winner set the stage for Sandler’s comedic yet heartfelt song that honored the show's historic half-century on the air.

Nicholson introduced the Grown Ups actor before he began his referential track, where he highlighted infamous SNL moments, pondered when Lorne Michaels ... threw a jab at Kanye West, who has ...

Is this what Lorne wanted? I’m so confused ... which was interrupted by Kanye West (now known as Ye) — who had not, at that point, taken to selling swastika T-shirts. And the cold open ...

She was one of the few new cast members with sketch comedy experience who was hired during a transitional year when creator Lorne Michaels ... from Barack Obama to Kanye West and Jay-Z.

It was the end of the Dick Ebersol-era (Lorne Michaels would return to run ... That’s the power Kanye West had over the culture — including four Brooklyintes and one very nervous groom ...