Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chevy Chase, seen here with Gilda Radner as Emily Litella. - NBC/Getty Images Fifty years ago, weeks before the premiere of the ...

Fifty years ago, weeks before the premiere of the show that would become “Saturday Night Live,” Chevy Chase had a camera test. NBC execs wanted to see how the untested cast of the late-night series ...

(CNN) — Fifty years ago, weeks before the premiere of the show that would become “Saturday Night Live,” Chevy Chase had a camera test. (CNN) — Fifty years ago, weeks before the premiere of the show ...

That’s how “Weekend Update” came to be. Chase’s version of events has changed over the years (the camera test anecdote comes from the oral history “Live From New York”; this year, he told Vanity Fair ...