Lorne Michaels, SNL

SNL turns 50! How Lorne Michaels made comedy cool again | The Excerpt
SNL is the longest-running, most Emmy-nominated, and highest-rated weekly late-night show in television history. How has Michaels done it?
How Lorne Michaels’s Biographer Got Him on the Record
Longtime ‘New Yorker’ editor and writer Susan Morrison set out to write a biography of the historically press-averse ‘Saturday Night Live’ creator with or without his participation. She details why she thinks he eventually came to the table—and held nothing back.
‘SNL50′ Was the Culmination of Lorne Michaels’ Vision, For Better and Worse
At the end of the Feb. 16 broadcast of “ SNL50 ,” a tribute to the half-century reign of “Saturday Night Live” over American culture, Martin Short thanked executive producer and series creator Lorne Michaels, calling him “the man who made our dreams come true.”
‘No one has had more influence’ on how we laugh than Lorne Michaels, says biographer
Lorne Michaels, who MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell calls “the television miracle worker,” is the subject of Susan Morrison’s book called “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live.” After Saturday Night Live celebrated its 50th anniversary,
New Lorne Michaels biography debuts after ‘SNL50’—Read it for $1
Just two days after the “Saturday Night Live” 50th anniversary special aired, a new biography on the man behind all of it is out now. “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live” is the “definitive biography” of Lorne Michaels,
Liberals loved this earnest Kate McKinnon moment on ‘SNL’ — but Lorne Michaels wasn’t a big fan
Lorne Michaels, the creator, executive producer and Grand Poobah of “SNL,” wasn’t pleased by its “mawkish righteousness,” ...
How Lorne Michaels manages creative people after 50 years of ‘Saturday Night Live’
Susan Morrison, author of a new biography on 'Saturday Night Live'-creator Lorne Michaels, reveals management lessons from 50 ...
Lorne Michaels Biographer Susan Morrison On ‘SNL50', Her Subject's Legacy And His Likely Next Act: "He's Built This Whole Culture With Walls Around It"
There has been “an air of kismet” about Susan Morrison’s 10-years-in-the-making biography of Saturday Night Live creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels, the author said. The New Yorker editor ...
The (Sketch) Show of Shows: Author Susan Morrison on Lorne Michaels and 50 Years of Saturday Night Live
At the center of all the televised festivities for the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live is Lorne Michaels, the ...
When Lorne Michaels and Jeff Zucker Fought It Out Over ‘30 Rock’ (Exclusive Excerpt)
The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live,' Susan Morrison goes behind the scenes of a tense meeting just days before the 2006 upfronts.
Lorne Michaels reveals his POV for handling both Dem and Republican politics on ‘SNL’: ‘Whoever is in power is probably awful’
It can’t be, ‘I like everything you do’ — that’s dishonest,” “SNL” creator Lorne Michaels said of skewering both Republicans ...
Lorne Michaels Isn’t Ready to Leave ‘Saturday Night Live’ Quite Yet: ‘I Don’t Feel I’m Done’
“I may be wrong,” he said. “But I don’t feel I’m done.” ...
Looking back at 50 years of "Saturday Night Live"
On October 11, 1975, people tuning into the debut of a late-night comedy show saw something unlike any TV variety ...
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 ...