
What better way to get ready for Saturday Night Live‘s landmark 50th anniversary special than a good old fashioned SNL-athon?
Sinclair’s TBD network has revealed it will air a 50-hour Saturday Night Live marathon starting Friday February 14th and leading right up to NBC’s live SNL50: The Anniversary Special on February 16th.
The marathon is set to include episodes hosted by Conan O’Brien, Tracy Morgan, Adam Sandler, Tina Fey, Ryan Gosling, Tom Hanks, Alec Baldwin, Matt Damon, Nate Bargatze, John Mulaney, Maya Rudolph, and Jimmy Fallon. Select “Best Of” specials will also be part of the lineup, including Best of Will Ferrell, Best of Chris Farley, and SNL Goes Commercial. The full schedule follows below:

Last September, TBD signed a deal with NBCUniversal to air vintage Saturday Night Live content, acquiring 60-minute syndicated versions of much of the show’s 49 season catalogue.
The free digital subchannel is available over-the-air to over 97 million US households. TBD has gradually introduced more classic comedy programming to its lineup since first launching as a viral content-focused channel in 2017. Aside from SNL, its offerings also include Key & Peele, Punk’d, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, and World’s Dumbest.
The channel’s SNL offerings are one of a handful of ways fans can catch vintage content from the show. Episodes going back to the show’s start are available on demand on NBC’s streaming service Peacock, while many of the show’s individual sketches can be viewed on YouTube and NBC.com. In 2023, NBCUniversal introduced an “SNL Vault” FAST channel, available on Peacock, Amazon Freevee, Roku, and Samsung TV Plus.
Other special events airing over SNL’s celebratory weekend include a star-stuuded “homecoming concert” on Peacock that Friday night, and a special primetime rebroadcast of the show’s 1975 series premiere that Saturday.
TBD’s 50-hour SNL marathon begins Friday, February 14 at 6pm ET. It will run nonstop until 8 PM ET on Sunday, February 16th—at which point viewers can switch over to NBC for the show’s live three-hour anniversary special.