SNL tapings are Saturday at 11:30pm (arrival time 10:45pm); there’s also a full dress rehearsal at 8pm (arrival time 7:15pm). You must be 16 or older to attend. Here’s the catch: E-mail requests are taken only in August and the odds are always long. However, you can try for standby tickets on the day of the show, which are distributed at 7am outside 30 Rockefeller Plaza, on the 49th Street side...
Over the last thirty years, “SNL” has launched the careers of many of the brightest comedy performers of a generation and as “The New York Times” noted on the occasion of the show’s Emmy winning 25th Anniversary special in 1999: “In defiance of both time and show business convention, “SNL” [is] still the most pervasive influence on the art of comedy in contemporary culture.” At the close of the...