SNL50: The Anniversary Special

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SNL50: The Anniversary Special

2025

2h 32m

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Live from New York, it's one night 50 years in the making. Celebrate the incredible 50th anniversary of the award-winning, record-breaking, history-making series with legendary stars, live musical performances and iconic sketches.

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Liam Mathews

TheWrap

02/19/2025

Overall, “SNL50” was a messy, excessive, self-satisfied special, but it was the perfect way to mark the milestone.

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Judy Berman

TIME Magazine

02/18/2025

The choice to favor new sketches over montages and other clips, this time, was smart; it’s not like old episodes of SNL are hard to find anymore.

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Amber Dowling

Globe and Mail

02/18/2025

Failed to bring the nostalgia or highlight the true legacy of [SNL]. But if it was trying to deliver a more polished, celebrity-filled afterparty that made you forget the real world for a few brief hours, I suppose it hit the mark.

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Garrett Martin

Paste Magazine

02/18/2025

6/10

SNL50: The Anniversary Special didn’t feel all that special. It felt like business as usual for a show that already congratulates itself as often as it possibly can, with only a few highlights coming close to the show’s rep as a comedy institution.

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Dustin Rowles

Pajiba

02/18/2025

6.47/10

It’s almost exactly what one might expect from a 50th Anniversary special: It leans hard on the familiar, shoehorns a lot of celebrities into every sketch, and is occasionally very funny and always nostalgic.

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Stephen C

@bob25009 1d

Funny in 2 hours and 32 minutes.

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Leah G

@RT26870107 6d

Hilarious, I was rolling on the floor.

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Hambone H

@RT09656350 03/31/2025

SNL isn’t even funny at least mad TV pushed boundaries this show needs to end

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DrHammertoe T

@RT63131214 02/24/2025

A couple of laughs. Poor writing.

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Dallas H

@RT53171010 02/23/2025

Watching SNL 50 is like listening to a Greatest Hits album from a big-name band. A few of the most recognizable hits appeared in this anniversary episode. At the same time, plenty of fan favorites were left out due to time constraints. I still had fun watching the show.

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Birithivy Y

@RT04210749 02/22/2025

SNL50: The Anniversary Special - 8/10. First of all: where the hell is Bill Hader? How was he not in this as much as he should’ve!? For me, SNL is funny, but I feel like it has some good highs and some really unfunny lows. There’s some fun nostalgic lookbacks in this special, bringing back old characters and sketches which work for the most part. Seeing some of the old cast members and guests coming back to help celebrate was kind of cool, and seeing them acknowledge a lot of the SNL history (good and bad) was a nice touch. For mega fans, this is gold. But for casual comedy fans, this is decent but wouldn’t say really encapsulates the comedy that SNL help make over the years.

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Synopsis

Live from New York, it's one night 50 years in the making. Celebrate the incredible 50th anniversary of the award-winning, record-breaking, history-making series with legendary stars, live musical performances and iconic sketches.

Producer: Steve Higgins, Erik Kenward
Distributor: NBC
Production Co: Broadway Video
Genre: Comedy, Entertainment, Music, Variety
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 16, 2025
Runtime: 2h 32m

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