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 ...

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.

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

According to an excerpt shared by Entertainment Weekly from the biography Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live ... not want to put a real artist in jail," Michaels reflected later ...

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 ...

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 ...

The man who made “Saturday Night ... The actor Bob Odenkirk, a former S.N.L. writer, called Michaels a “distant, strange comedy god.” Mike Myers said: “He is aware of his own Lorne-ness.” ...