Susan Morrison's "Lorne" offers a history of a man and a show that changed the comedy landscape — and has been doing so for ...

Morrison spent years chatting up Lorne Michaels, the NBC impresario who has seen “SNL” transform itself from an upstart, avant-garde program into an American institution on par with Apple ...

Throw in the sheer tonnage of think pieces and appreciations and other navel-gazing and you’d be forgiven for asking: Do we also need a book about Lorne Michaels? Somehow, despite all of the ...

As the creator of “Saturday Night Live,” Lorne Michaels has shaped American comedy for half a century.Credit...Daniel Arnold for The New York Times Supported by By Maureen Dowd Is it possible ...

Writing the character, Fey and Carlock would ask themselves: What would Lorne do? Some of Donaghy’s precepts are Michaels-esque in the extreme: “Never go with a hippie to a second location.” ...

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Back in nasty, metallic, cocaine-powered ’90s London, where everyone was standing ...

as Susan Morrison puts it in “Lorne,” her new biography of Lorne Michaels, the creator of “Saturday Night Live,” “a man of some physical grace.” If he’s remembered otherwise ...

Michaels (born Lorne Lipowitz) was raised in a middle-class, Jewish family in Toronto. His father died when Lorne was 13, but ...