Former Saturday Night Live writer Barry Blaustein died on Tuesday, May 12, at age 71. The writer and director was hired at SNL ahead of Season 6, and he and fellow writer David Sheffield soon started ...

Eddie Murphy during the 'Mister Robinson's Neighborhood' skit; Tom Hanks and Kate McKinnon during the "Haunted Elevator" sketch. Credit: Al Levine/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty; Will Heath/NBCU Photo ...

From 'Spartan Cheerleaders' to 'The Hanukkah Song,' these classic 'Saturday Night Live' sketches are still quoted decades later Julia Moore is a TV Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Barry Blaustein, the former Saturday Night Live writer whose decades-long collaboration with Eddie Murphy included Buckwheat, Gumby and Mr. Robinson sketches and the Coming to America and Nutty ...