Timothée Chalamet followed in Ryan Gosling’s footsteps by struggling not to laugh during his third time hosting Saturday Night Live. The writers of the NBC late-night program didn’t do him any favors with characters and situations that were pretty out there.

Live” is having a 50th anniversary, and things are happening. Jason Reitman’s backstage dramedy “Saturday Night,” released last year, is

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Episode one, “Five Minutes,” is the best watch. It features a variety of former cast members, including Amy Poehler, Tracy Morgan and Bill Hader reacting to their audition tapes. Each watches with the same mix of embarrassment and love akin to the emotions of looking at middle school photos.

“SNL 50: Beyond Saturday Night” will be streaming exclusively on Peacock. There will be four installments of “SNL 50: Beyond Saturday Night,” and each episode lands at the same time on Thursday, Jan. 16. Here are the episode descriptions below, per Peacock.

There are books — the best of which is still “ Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live ” — and countless movies, including a 2010 documentary and a 2024 feature, both titled “Saturday Night,” and a slew of comedies derived from popular “SNL” sketches, notably “The Blues Brothers” and “ Wayne’s World .”

So, who will be hosting the momentous season’s remaining episodes? The NBC sketch comedy series has not yet announced the next host after Chalamet. That is because, there won’t be a new “SNL” episode on Saturday,