NBC to Drop Documentary ‘Women & Gents… 50 Years of SNL Song’

Saturday Evening Are living is these days celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, and the festivities proceed with a brand spanking new documentary NBC introduced on Thursday (Dec. 19).

Women & Gents… 50 Years of SNL Song will function interviews with artists, forged participants, writers and manufacturers who’ve contributed to SNL‘s iconic legacy. The 3-hour documentary may also “function untold tales in the back of the culture-defining, groundbreaking and newsmaking musical performances, sketches and cameos of the previous 50 years,” according to a press unencumber description.

The printed is directed by means of Questlove and Oz. Rodriguez, and produced by means of Two One 5 Leisure, RadicalMedia and Broadway Video. Questlove additionally serves as government manufacturer along Lorne Michaels, Zarah Zohlman, Erin David, Dave Sirulnick, Jon Kamen, Meredith Bennett, Alexander H. Browne, Shawn Gee and Tariq Trotter. Rodriguez serves as manufacturer. 

Unhealthy Bunny, DJ Breakout, Elvis Costello, Miley Cyrus, Billie Eilish and Finneas, Dave Grohl, Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, Mick Jagger, Dua Lipa, Darryl DMC McDaniels, Tom Morello, Kacey Musgraves, Olivia Rodrigo, MC Sha-Rack, Paul Simon, Chris Stapleton, Justin Timberlake, Lee Ving and Jack White are the entire musicians set to seem within the documentary. The display may also function forged participants together with Jimmy Fallon, Bowen Yang, Fred Armisen, Conan O’Brien, Invoice Hader, Eddie Murphy, Andy Samberg, Kenan Thompson, Maya Rudolph and lots of extra.

“We all know essentially the most well-known SNL appearances, whether or not it’s Elvis Costello, Prince or the Beastie Boys, however they’re the top of an enormous iceberg,” Questlove mentioned in a press commentary. “The method of going again throughout the improbable archival pictures used to be like being in a time device, DeLorean or different. I’m so satisfied I went at the travel and now get to percentage it with everybody.” 

Women & Gents… 50 Years of SNL Song will premiere Jan. 27 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on NBC and flow the following day on Peacock. The documentary is a part of a number of celebratory programming, together with a four-part SNL50: Past Saturday Evening Peacock docuseries on Jan. 16 and a reside primetime particular on Feb. 16 on NBC and Peacock.