At the center of all the televised festivities for the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live is Lorne Michaels, the ...

Longtime ‘New Yorker’ editor and writer Susan Morrison set out to write a biography of the historically press-averse ...

On October 11, 1975, people tuning into the debut of a late-night comedy show saw something unlike any TV variety ...

Throw in the sheer tonnage of think pieces and appreciations and other navel-gazing and you’d be forgiven for asking: Do we ...

But Michaels also has to contend with his own cast’s biases. In the book “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live,” out ... it’s their first real job or, at least, their first ...

"Saturday Night" is an ambitious ... Case in point: Gabriel LaBelle was amazing in the role of a young Lorne Michaels, who's trying to keep the production from falling apart despite the growing ...

Somehow, despite all of the above, Susan Morrison’s “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live ... auditioning for Michaels to remember that he is the real star of the show.

Susan Morrison may have ruined “Saturday Night Live” for a legion of journalists assigned to cover the world of late-night TV. Morrison spent years chatting up Lorne Michaels, the NBC ...

Two weeks after the Rolling Stones hosted Saturday Night Live in 1978, Lorne Michaels ... According to Morrison, Michaels later said, “Canadians would not want to put a real artist in jail.” ...

In 1975, Lorne Michaels’s brash experiment ... who won Emmys for his writing on “Saturday Night Live,” is a respected dramatic actor. But the most pleasing SNL stories tend to be the ones ...