Lorne Michael Spent An Exorbitant Amount To Bring In So Many Major Names For SNL 50: Maya Rudolph, John Mulaney, Chris Rock, The List Goes On And On

50 years: that’s how long Saturday Night Live has been on the air, with the night of that first episode being recently chronicled in the biopic Saturday Night.

Logic would dictate that the person who’s running Saturday Night Live ranks below these NBC executives, but this is Lorne Michaels we’re talking about.

Along with the aforementioned names, SNL Season 50 also brought in Jim Gaffigan to play Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz during the election season.