Saturday Night Live may be known first and foremost as a sketch comedy show, but from the very first episode of SNL music has also played an important role in its history. That history is going to be front and center in a brand new documentary, Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music, which airs on Monday, January 27, on NBC starting at 8 pm ET/PT.
Co-directed by Questlove and Oz Rodriguez, the full-length documentary (it’s taking up the entire three-hour NBC primetime block on January 27, Ladies & Gentlemen features untold stories behind the “culture-defining, groundbreaking and newsmaking musical performances,” as NBC describes it, from SNL’s first 50 years.
