Her images have that in common with the rest of Saturday Night Live. Her bumper photos don't go out to the world because they're ready, they go out because the close strikes 11:30 p.m. on Saturday ...

often whimsical portraits of stars to serve as “bumpers” — images that appear on screen before a commercial break — for “Saturday Night Live.” “The bumpers are probably the least ...

Every episode of “Saturday Night Live” is sprinkled with a few seconds of still photographs serving as “bumpers,” the bookends to each commercial break with spellbinding portraits of the ...

In an episode of “30 Rock”—a sitcom about a weekly live sketch show similar to “Saturday Night Live,” created by ... has shot “S.N.L.” ’s “bumper” photographs—those brightly ...

Fan-favorite SNL musical sketches will be brought to life with featured costumes from The Blues Brothers, Sweeney Sisters and ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame announced that its newest exhibit will be “SNL: Ladies & Gentlemen…50 Years of Music,” opening Friday, May 23.

Mary Ellen Matthews in 30 Rockefeller Plaza, the longtime home of “Saturday Night Live.” Matthews started taking stylized photos of the show’s hosts in 2000. Matthews said she had struggled to whittle ...

Matthews is Saturday Night Live's official photographer. She creates the portraits of the show's hosts and musical guests that flash on the screen for a few seconds before the commercial breaks. These ...

SNL' photographer reflects on iconic celebrity ... These images are called bumpers, and the name has its roots in TV history, according to Matthews. "The image bumps back into the show," she ...