Questlove to direct ’50 Years of SNL Music’ documentary

Questlove is because of direct a music-themed documentary for Saturday Night time Reside (SNL) for its fiftieth anniversary.

Yesterday (December 19), NBC announced the Questlove-helmed documentary Women & Gentleman… 50 Years of SNL Music. Per NBC, it should embrace over 50 interviews with musicians from the final 5 many years who've carried out on the hit sketch comedy present.

This contains the likes of Mick Jagger, Dave Grohl, Jack White, Billie Eilish, Miley Cyrus, Olivia Rodrigo, Dua Lipa, Kacey Musgraves, Elvis Costello and extra.

The three-hour function may even embrace interviews with current and former forged and crew members embrace Fred Armisen, Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Fallon, Al Franken, Invoice Hader, Eddie Murphy, Liz Patrick, Andy Samberg, Kenan Thompson, Maya Rudolph, Hal Willner and Bowen Yang.

“Everybody is aware of probably the most well-known SNL appearances, whether or not it’s Elvis Costello, Prince or the Beastie Boys, however they’re the tip of an enormous iceberg,” Questlove mentioned of the documentary. “The method of going again by the unimaginable archival footage was like being in a time machine, DeLorean or different. I’m so blissful I went on the journey and now get to share it with everybody.”

Women & Gents… 50 Years of SNL Music will premiere on January 27 at 8pm ET on NBC and will likely be accessible for streaming the following day through Peacock. The documentary is simply one of many programmes deliberate to rejoice SNL main as much as its fiftieth anniversary in October subsequent 12 months.

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The information of Questlove helming the upcoming SNL documentary comes after he was introduced to direct an upcoming Earth, Wind & Fireplace documentary movie, set for launch in 2025. Previous to that, he directed the acclaimed, Oscar and Grammy-winning 2021 documentary Summer time Of Soul, which instructed the story of the neglected 1969 Harlem Cultural Pageant.