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I'm Terry Gross.
As part of Saturday Night Live's 50th anniversary celebration this year, terr tonight, NBC will premiere a documentary highlighting the music guests and music comedy sketches that the show has featured over the decades.
It's called ladies and gentlemen, 50 years of SNL Music.
It was co directed by my guest, Grammy winning musician and Oscar winning documentary filmmaker Amir Kweslov Thompson.
He's the co founder, leader and drummer of the hip hop band the Roots.
And it's the house band for another late night show, the Tonight show with Jimmy Fallon.
Before Questlove talks about the movie and how SNL has influenced him as a musician and late night bandleader, our TV critic David Biancooli is going to review the film along with a documentary series that's also part of the 50th anniversary celebration.
That series is streaming on Peacock.
The two new Saturday night Live documentaries come from filmmakers who bring their own interests and perspectives.
NBC's Ladies and Gentlemen, 50 Years of SNL Music comes from Amir Questlove Thompson, who's both a musician and a music historian.
And the four part SNL 50 beyond Saturday night, now streaming on Peacock, comes from Morgan Neville, who's as interested in the creative process as he is in letting people tell their own stories.
Questlove, in his movie length study, mines the archive of a half century of musical performances as well as the emergence of hip hop and other genres into the show and the culture.
Some classic performances are run full length, others are sampled in cleverly compiled montages and mashups.
It's such a solid, well selected overview that I can think of only one SNL music performance I really wish had been included.
Paul Simon, backed by Ladysmith Black Mambazo on their thrilling 1986 rendition of Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes.
But Questlove covers a lot.
Not only infamous appearances by Elvis Costello, Sinead O'Connor, Ashlee Simpson and Kanye, but even comedy sketches and videos built around music.