Eddie Murphy, who once rescued ... he helped revive it during a fallow period when creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels had stepped away from his duties due to a contract dispute.

Eddie Murphy rescued a sketch in the show ... teen-aged comedy phenom in the early 1980s helped revive SNL during a fallow period when creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels had stepped ...

If only Lorne Michaels and prominent Saturday Night Live alumni could have had a little warning that they’d be doing a 50th ...

Lorne Michaels Isn't Ready to Leave ‘Saturday Night Live' Quite Yet: ... Eddie Murphy, Tina Fey, Ayo Edebiri, Pedro Pascal, John Mulaney, and many many more. But in the build up, ...

"Lorne [Michaels] fired him pretty ... E ddie Murphy, who'd recently departed from the show, told Damon, "Write your own ...

Eddie Murphy (far left) was a breakout star on "SNL" in 1981. Corbis/VCG via Getty Images Jason Reitman's movie, "Saturday Night," follows the chaotic first episode of "SNL".

Lorne Michaels, the creator of the long-running sketch comedy television show “Saturday Night Live” has donated his career archive to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, the ...

Lorne Michaels could have nine more seasons of Saturday Night Live left in him. The SNL showrunner recently dropped a new hint about how long he plans to head the NBC sketch comedy show he created ...

Eddie Murphy, who once rescued ... teen-aged comedy phenom in the early 1980s helped revive SNL during a fallow period when creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels had stepped away from his ...