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

In retrospect, Lorne Michaels probably should have credited ... And he was great! He was solid.” Neil Levy, a production assistant at the time, claimed that “Broderick Crawford was completely ...

On a special episode (first released on February 19, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: 50 years ago, a Canadian comedian named Lorne Michaels kicked off the first season of what would rapidly become a ...

Michaels soon hired his cousin, Neil Levy. As Morrison writes ... He recalled asking himself, ‘How does a guy like Lorne, with okay credits, but not famous — a nobody — how does he ...

Lorne Michaels, left, Mike Myers as Wayne Campbell, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Hanks and Dana Carvey as Garth Algar on the set of "Saturday Night Live" in 1992. (Alan Singer / NBCU Photo Bank via ...