Live was more than just a milestone for the show itself.  Forty years after Martin Short served as a cast member for the ...

See who's playing Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Lorne Michaels and more in Jason Reitman's Saturday Night, about the fraught 90 minutes leading up to the Oct. 11, 1975, premiere of Saturday Night Live.

50 years after “Saturday Night Live” first aired, some of the show’s original cast members will be back where it all began.

The trailer for "Saturday Night," starring Gabrielle LaBelle, Dylan O'Brien, Willem Dafoe, Kaia Gerber and more, features the original "SNL" cast in chaos as they put on the first-ever episode of ...

Playing the original “Saturday Night Live” cast, clockwise from lower left, Lamorne Morris, Cory Michael Smith, Matt Wood, Ella Hunt, Dylan O’Brien, Kim Matula and Emily Fairn.

And there’s nothing like it The original cast of “Saturday Night Live,” from left: Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Chevy Chase, Laraine Newman, Garrett Morris, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd.

So with all the hullabaloo surrounding SNL, let’s take it back to the beginnings of Saturday Night Live and catch up with that pioneering Season 1 cast and where their post- SNL careers took them.

From original 'SNL' cast members who tragically passed far too young to more recent losses in the Studio 8H family, here are the 17 'SNL' alumni who have passed away.

From original 'SNL' cast members who tragically passed far too young to more recent losses in the Studio 8H family, here are the 17 'SNL' alumni who have passed away.

It's been nearly 50 years since the very first episode of Saturday Night Live aired. Originally titled NBC’s Saturday Night, SNL premiered on Oct. 11, 1975, has since remained the TV sketch comedy ...