Saturday Night Live is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary all season long, including this weekend’s presumably lavish Sunday-night special, and no discussion of the show’s legacy is complete without ...

Comedian Chevy Chase, second from left, joins the cast of NBC's "Saturday Night Live," with Laraine Newman, from right, Gilda Radner, Bill Murray and Jane Curtin, left, on Feb. 16, 1978 in New York.

Franne Lee, a Tony-winning costumer and set designer who joined the fledgling Saturday Night Live and created the looks of some of the NBC’s late-night show’s most iconic characters, including the ...