Photo: Noam Galai/Getty Images for WSJ. Magazine Innovators Awards If your brain got deep-fried watching the marvelous opening sequence to 50 Years of SNL Music , yes, it was a very intensive labor of love for Questlove, and the Emmys committee should already have a verdict. Speaking with Deadline about the method behind his creative madness, the director said that the seven-minute mash-up — which deftly remixed about a hundred SNL performances — took nearly a year to complete in the editing