{"id":2022443,"date":"2025-09-15T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2022443"},"modified":"2025-09-15T02:45:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T02:45:00","slug":"snls-50th-anniversary-beats-out-beyonces-bowl-50-years-after-lorne-michaels-won-his-first-emmy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/snls-50th-anniversary-beats-out-beyonces-bowl-50-years-after-lorne-michaels-won-his-first-emmy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018SNL\u2019s 50th Anniversary Beats Out Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s Bowl, 50 Years After Lorne Michaels Won His First Emmy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">One of the more intriguing Emmy battles this year was <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm0461498\/\">Beyonc\u00e9<\/a> going head-to-head with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/title\/tt0072562\/\">Saturday Night Live<\/a>\u2019s celeb-filled 50th anniversary special. It turns out that the TV Academy voters enjoyed the latter.<\/p>\n<p>SNL 50: The Anniversary won the award for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/title\/tt30343084\/\">Outstanding<\/a> Variety Special (Live).<\/p>\n<p>It beat <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/company\/co0144901\/\">Netflix<\/a>\u2019s Beyonc\u00e9 Bowl, the Apple Music Super Bowl Lix <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/title\/tt19637852\/\">Halftime<\/a> Show Starring <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm5302509\/\">Kendrick Lamar<\/a>, The Oscars and its own <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/title\/tt35635144\/\">SNL50: The Homecoming Concert<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Presented the award from his former <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/title\/tt17155674\/\">SNL<\/a> star <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm0275486\/\">Tina Fey<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm0584427\/\">Lorne Michaels<\/a> was nostalgic, having first won the Outstanding Variety Series award in 1976.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI won this award for the first time 50 years in 1976. I was younger and had a lot of dreams about what would happen in my life. Not one of those dreams was me doing the same show for the next 50 years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm10803627\/\">Michaels<\/a> thanked <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/company\/co0847663\/\">NBC<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/company\/co0053001\/\">Comcast<\/a>. \u201cThe [anniversary] show was two years in the planning&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source m.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more intriguing Emmy battles this year was Beyonc\u00e9 going head-to-head with Saturday Night Live\u2019s celeb-filled 50th anniversary special. It turns out that the TV Academy voters enjoyed the latter. SNL 50: The Anniversary won the award for Outstanding Variety Special (Live). It beat Netflix\u2019s Beyonc\u00e9 Bowl, the Apple Music Super Bowl Lix [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2022444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2022443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018SNLs-50th-Anniversary-Beats-Out-Beyonces-Bowl-50-Years-After.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2022443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2022444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}