After Lorne
The ringmaster of Saturday Night Live is 80 years old. What happens to the show, not to mention American comedy, when he ...
Lorne Michaels convinced Dave Chappelle to cut non-binary joke from SNL monologue
Still, despite being a well-known name-dropper, he didn’t get where he is today by kowtowing to celebrity at every ...
How Lorne Michaels' Biographer Convinced ‘SNL' Chief to Reveal Rare View of Life Off-Camera
Susan Morrison may have ruined "Saturday Night Live" for a legion of journalists assigned to cover the world of late-night TV ...
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Lorne Michaels Told Bill Hader, Who Was 'Prone to Anxiety Attacks,' to 'Calm the F--- Down' Before Hosting SNL
"To some, Michaels will bark, 'Don’t f--- it up,'" Susan Morrison writes in Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live, according to an excerpt in The New Yorker. David Spade Says It ...
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Lorne Michaels Is the Real Star of “Saturday Night Live”
He’s ruled with absolute power for five decades, forever adding to his list of oracular pronouncements—about producing TV, ...
Saturday Night Live’s Dana Carvey Talks About the “Explosive” Genius of Chris Farley, Living in Lorne Michaels’ Guest Room, and His Terrifying Early Years at SNL
The show was in a bad place,” Carvey recalls. “I was told if we don't hit the ground running, they'll pull the plug at Christmas.” ...
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'SNL50' docuseries looks back on nerve-racking cast auditions, writers and 'more cowbell'
And yet a half-century later, producer Lorne Michaels and his merry maniacs are still at it. What gives? Explaining aspects of that improbable run is the mission of a new Peacock docuseries ...