For the first time ever: “Live from New York, it’s ‘Saturday Night’!” made me cry a little.

Proudly shouted by former cast members Maya Rudolph and Dana Carvey, the famous phrase kicked off the 50th season of a New York icon.

Can you believe “Saturday Night Live” is celebrating its 50th anniversary?

No matter how you feel about the show, Lorne Michaels’ sketch series, which has aired from Studio 8H at 30 Rock in Midtown since 1975, has undeniably shaped American comedy as we know it.

It has produced countless stars and wrung out a million laughs.

We all grew up with it, we can all quote it, we all have passionate opinions about it. The NBC show is part of American life.

Michaels embraced his inner Canadian and went surprisingly subdued at the start of Season 50, which was hosted by the fantastic Jean Smart of “Hacks.” Country singer Jelly Roll was the musical guest.

The show’s enigmatic creator previously said, without much detail, that there will eventually be a Radio City Music Hall celebration honoring the first half-century of “Saturday Night Live.”

Still, bringing back “SNL” legend Carvey as an evasive President Joe Biden was a big and brilliant move. ‘ I shouted as he entered the stage.

After so many lame attempts to capture the essence of cuckoo prez – Jason Sudeikis, Woody Harrelson, Jim Carrey, Mikey Day – the excellent Carvey finally knocked it out of the park.

“A lot of people forget that I’m president,” he said alongside Rudolph’s Kamala Harris. “Including me!”

Every unhinged comment, intonation, gesture and look was totally hilarious.

He walked off stage in confusion, creepily sniffed Kamala’s hair and inexplicably whispered, “The.” Rich. Don’t. Pay. Their. Honestly. Part.”

Rudolph’s dismissive Kamala said: “Thank you, Joe Biden, for putting your country first and handing over the reins.”

Carvey’s Biden shouted back: “I didn’t want to!”

Too true.

You’ll remember that in addition to being the Church Lady, Garth of “Wayne’s World,” John McLaughlin and countless other roles, Carvey was also responsible for one of “SNL”‘s best political performances ever: George HW Bush.

He gets it. Carvey simply played the role, without agenda or judgment. And he killed.

I sincerely hope we see much, much more of his fantastic Biden this season.

I’ll also hand it to James Austin Johnson: his impression of Donald Trump is very good. But the premiere jokes about 45 were typical and indistinguishable from anyone else’s.

Rudolph’s Harris pulled out her punches again. The piece is still too much about crazy dances and idiosyncratic voices, and not so much about who the presidential candidate actually is. Right now she’s cute, not funny.

“Weekend Update” had no choice but to adopt the unprecedented indictment of Mayor Eric Adams over allegations that he was bribed by the government of Turkey.

“I spent every day with the working people of this city,” said Devon Walker as Hizzoner.

“The dancers, the bottle girls, Fat Joe. And they all say the same thing: “Thanks for bringing the swagger back to town!” What was once a dump with no swag is now a swag tropolis… with significantly more crime than before.’”

But “Update” co-host Michael Che insisted: “You provided favors to the Turkish government in exchange for expensive trips.”

Walker’s Adams shot back: “So you want your mayor as a coach, huh?”