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Happy 50th 'SNL!' Here's a look back at the show's very first cast

Sep. 19, 2024 16:05 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Live from New York! It's 50 seasons later for “SNL.” The landmark NBC sketch comedy show “Saturday Night Live” premiered Oct. 11, 1975, with drop-dead dark humor and pratfalls, George Carlin as host and not one but two musical guests: Billy Preston and Janis...

Connie Chung launched a generation of Asian American girls named Connie. She had no idea

Sep. 16, 2024 09:29 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Some public figures are honored with namesake buildings or monuments. Veteran broadcaster Connie Chung has a strain of marijuana and hundreds of Asian American women as legacies. Chung was contacted five years ago by a fellow journalist, Connie Wang, whose Chinese...