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During the Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special, Chris Rock delivered a touching, funny and honest speech honoring Eddie Murphy.

Spoiler Alert: The best thing to happen on the Saturday Night Live 40th anniversary special tonight is Maya Rudolph as a ***Flawless Beyonce.

Weekend Update has been a staple of 'Saturday Night Live' ever since the show's first season in 1975, and as part of the 40th Anniversary Special, 'SNL' recognized the weekly news parody with a tribute led by Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Jane Curtin.

We were wondering how long it would take for Taylor Swift to show up in a skit for tonight's Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special, and, thankfully, we only had to wait about an hour or so to see her in all her comedic glory.

For its 40th Anniversary Special, 'Saturday Night Live' took another opportunity to take a swipe at Justin Bieber and this time, the long-running sketch comedy show integrated the pop star into its famous Celebrity Jeopardy gag from the late '90s and early 2000s.

The second monologue for the 'SNL' 40th Anniversary Special was an insane display that shows exactly why the show has been around for 40 years.

In the midst of an otherwise dull (and occasionally painful) red carpet special that aired before the SNL 40th anniversary show, special guest Jim Carrey livened things up by by making Matt Lauer really uncomfortable. His comedic weapon of choice? The recently suspended/disgraced NBC newsman Brian Williams.

Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon just did the opening monologue for 'SNL's' 40th anniversary special and, of course, it was insanely epic.

"Here we go, one more time, everybody's feeling fine ..." We can't help but be a little (a lot) excited because 'N Sync just dropped huge news!

Super Bowl commercials are still a big, huge, massive, crazy deal, with major corporations shelling out absurd amounts of money on ads designed to win over the most reliably large and receptive audience in all of televised sports. So of course ‘SNL’ was going to contribute its own commercial parody to the mix...but man, no one was expecting something this mean, scathing or on-point.