- Over the 50 seasons of “Saturday Night Live,” thousands of sketches have been performed.
- We’ve picked the 46 most memorable sketches or characters in the show’s history.
- The Blues Brothers and Wayne and Garth got movies out of their sketches.
Not every “SNL” sketch can become iconic, since there have been so many of them. That’s what makes these sketches so important: They’ve stuck around in the public consciousness for years, sometimes decades.
Some have become so popular that they’ve received film adaptations, made frequent appearances on the show — some so frequent that they had to be retired — or become full-blown memes.
Ahead of the 50th anniversary special of “SNL” this weekend, we picked our favorites, from Buckwheat to Opera Man to Gilly to Domingo.
