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

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

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

In 1975, Lorne Michaels’s brash experiment ... who won Emmys for his writing on “Saturday Night Live,” is a respected dramatic actor. Because anniversaries are supposed to celebrate history ...

Susan is the author of the newly released title “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live,” the definitive biography of SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels, and joins The Excerpt to ...

For decades, the ‘Saturday Night Live’ creator Lorne Michaels ... and for Mr. Michaels, a Belvedere vodka on the rocks with a side of cranberry juice — the actor Jonah Hill admitted to ...

Lorne Michaels once said that the best cast of NBC’s Saturday Night Live was the one from ... Masters” with Hartman as the host. The actors look at ease as they embody their very specific ...

At its end, Chevy Chase gingerly walks by the prone bodies of the two actors ... 80 last fall — on a show night, naturally. Lorne Michaels, producer of NBC's "Saturday Night Live," speaks ...