Lorne Michaels Reflects on His ‘S.N.L.’ Legacy Ahead of the 50th Anniversary
Will Ferrell once worried that his affectionate portrayal of George W. Bush on “S.N.L.” had helped the Texan win the White ...
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The Lorne Michaels Book-Event Thread Is the Reply-All Disaster We Need
On Thursday evening, New Yorker editor Susan Morrison sent out a mass email invitation to an event for her forthcoming ...
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 ...
'Saturday Night' Got This 'SNL' Origin Story All Wrong About Lorne Michaels
Saturday Night might have gotten a lot of things right about the first SNL airing, but they messed up one bit about Lorne Michaels and Weekend Update.
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The Unfunny Man Who Believes in Humor
Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Back in nasty, metallic, cocaine-powered ’90s London, where everyone was standing ...
Book Review: ‘Lorne,’ by Susan Morrison
Live” turns 50 this year, and a monumental biography of the man who created it attests to his enduring role as America’s ...
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How Lorne Michaels’ Biographer Convinced ‘SNL’ Chief to Reveal Rare View of Life Off-Camera
Morrison spent years chatting up Lorne Michaels, the NBC impresario who has seen “SNL” transform itself from an upstart, avant-garde program into an American institution on par with Apple ...