The best ‘SNL’ sports sketches over its 50-year history
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/02/14/snl-best-sports-sketches/ “Saturday Night Live” and sports have been a fruitful combination over the last 50 years. Projections and lights commemorate Saturday Night Live's 50th Anniversary, at Rockefeller Center in New York City. (Sarah Yenesel/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) By Matt Bonesteel The Washington Post - February 14, 2025 With “Saturday Night Live” celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, we thought it would be an opportune time to go back and look at some of the best SNL sketches that drew from the world of sports. Little Chocolate Donuts Season 3, Episode 6 (1977) SNL plumbed the depths of John Belushi’s real-life persona for laughs on numerous occasions in its early years ( “The Thing That Wouldn’t Leave,” a second-season cold open that made light of his drug use and notorious unreliability), but the most remembered probably is the commercial parody that had stumpy-bodied Belushi performing Olympian feats, all thanks to lit...