60 Minutes: A Second Look

Name a successful comedian of the last five decades and chances are, they got their start on Saturday Night Live -- under the direction of Lorne Michaels. As SNL enters its 50th season, we share never-before-heard audio from Lesley Stahl's 2004 interview with the show’s famously private creator and executive producer, who allowed 60 Minutes cameras unique behind-the-scenes access. Stahl also spoke with Amy Poehler, Tina Fey and Seth Meyers as they pitched, wrote and rehearsed sketches up until 11:30 Saturday night. Plus, 60 Minutes producer Denise Schrier Cetta shares what it was like filming the same week as one of the most controversial musical performances in SNL history.

Taylor Swift rarely grants journalists access to her life. But when she was just 21 years old, she invited 60 Minutes inside her home and on tour to see firsthand how she was revolutionizing the music business. Now, for the first time, we hear previously unreleased audio. While Lesley Stahl and a 60 Minutes team spent long days with Swift in both Nashville and Los Angeles, only thirteen minutes was broadcast on television. As we take a "second look," these conversations help us better understand Swift's unbelievable career trajectory. You'll also hear fascinating recollections from correspondent Lesley Stahl and producer Shari Finkelstein about what it was like to spend time with an artist as she was still finding her voice.

When Morley Safer traveled to West Virginia in 1975 to report on a fight over books in schools, he couldn't have known how that conflict would help lay the blueprint for many contemporary challenges over what students are allowed to read. In our first "second look," we revisit a battle that informs our current day culture wars by talking to the people who bore witness fifty years ago. Plus, insights from a 60 Minutes producer on his latest reporting on book banning in 2024.

When “60 Minutes” premiered in 1968, there was nothing like it on television. Now more than 50 years later, we’re taking you on a journey back in time, sharing rare archival treasures, including never-before-heard audio from the likes of Taylor Swift and Lorne Michaels. You’ll hear from a Secret Service agent who witnessed the Kennedy assassination and the President’s daughter who became one of the biggest “influencers” of her time. From the battle over what’s taught in our schools to what the tech titans of the 1980s predicted about our anxieties of today, listen to how our world has–and hasn’t–changed.