The 50th anniversary special for "Saturday Night Live" began with music generations colliding, with Paul Simon and Sabrina Carpenter singing "Homeward ... before comedy legend Steve Martin took the stage to give a host's traditional monologue.

The Grammy winners performed a touching duet of Simon & Garfunkel’s “Homeward Bound,” which he sang on the show decades earlier in 1976.

Sabrina Carpenter and Paul Simon starred in the cold open segment ... “I was not born then and neither were my parents,” Carpenter said. Steve Martin was given the honor of delivering the opening monologue, calling himself the how’s “newest ...

Fifty seasons of “Saturday Night Live” sketches, songs and special guests will be celebrated Sunday as the variety show celebrates its landmark anniversary. Here’s how to watch.

Bill Murray showed up on 'Weekend Update' to mock the anchors, Tom Hanks introduced an "In Memoriam" segment devoted to "characters and sketches that have aged horribly" and other highlights.

"Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey" was a long-standing segment on SNL in the ‘90s where Phil Hartman offered surreally soothing adages as Jack Handey. "Looking back over 50 years, we treasure the laughs, the friendship, the fond memories,” Handey’s voice said."But the real treasure was how much money we were making."

SNL50: The Anniversary Special is billed to be a star-studded affair, and it opened on Sunday with some big guns: Sabrina Carpenter joined Paul Simon to perform a tender rendition of Simon and Garfunkel’s 1966 classic, “Homeward Bound.”