"He was always kinda like, nice, but then also really contentious, you know?" Not every Saturday Night Live musical guest actually likes the show. Case in point: Ye. The artist formerly known as Kanye West appeared on SNL seven times between 2005 and 2018,

They throw you in a lake," says Silverman, who was a 22-year-old standup comic when she joined the cast as a writer and featured player, "and you just have to learn to swim.”

Kenan Thompson has the honor of being Saturday Night Live’s longest-tenured cast member, with 22 seasons under his belt. In this week’s PEOPLE issue, the comedian, 46, calls working on NBC's late-night sketch variety series “hands down” the best job in television.

The highly entertaining Ladies and Gentlemen gets into the best and most controversial musical moments from 50 years of SNL history. But what about the dregs?

Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon, Seth Meyers, Molly Shannon, Kenan Thompson and Bowen Yang sit down with PEOPLE to talk about how they got to Studio 8H, their biggest laughs on the show and how hard it wa