Better Than Ezra never performed on “Saturday Night Live,” but the group is a tiny part of the show’s history.

The band was part of a memorable Norm Macdonald joke during Weekend Update: “And in music news, No. 1 on the college charts this summer was Better Than Ezra. And at No. 2 — Ezra.”

The line got a laugh that lasted longer than the joke itself when it originally aired in 1995, and it’s one of those lines that people still remember.

After Macdonald died in 2021, it regularly was included in montages of his most memorable “SNL” bits.

It also can be seen in the new Peacock documentary “Downey Wrote That” about longtime “SNL” scribe Jim Downey, who was head writer on the show during Macdonald’s tenure in the anchor chair.

Better Than Ezra’s Kevin Griffin said the band was shocked when that episode first aired.

“We loved it,” he said. “We were massive Norm Macdonald fans … It’s funny, when we came up with a name Better Than Ezra, we were like, ‘Oh, this is kind of fun and unique sounding. You remember it. You hope that, whether it’s music or a band name or something, you hope to become part of the pop culture. That’s a hard thing to do, and the name certainly has.”

Three decades after its biggest hits, Better than Ezra’s name still is remembered and still gets laughs. In a 2022 “SNL” opening sketch, James Austin Johnson as Donald Trump rambles that he’s “Better than Lincoln. Better than Washington. Frankly, better than Ezra.”

“We came up with that band name in 1988,” Griffin said. “If you can be something that people still refer to and still know what it is, then you did something right.”