As the creator of “Saturday Night Live,” Lorne Michaels has shaped American comedy for half a century.Credit...Daniel Arnold for The New York Times Supported by By Maureen Dowd Is it possible ...

Look what you made him do. Taylor Swift allegedly once asked “Saturday Night Live” creator Lorne Michaels to cut a sketch about her infamous “girl squad,” which he refused to do.

More Lorne Michaels SNL50 hagiography, this time from Vulture. It’s hard to craft a profile around a guy who won’t sit for an interview, much less craft one when there are at least half a ...

Call him the king of comedy, the sultan of sketch — or, as cast member Ego Nwodim has revealed she once did by mistake, “Daddy” — but Lorne Michaels will forever be the beating heart of ...

Though many are curious when he'll enact his succession plan and what it will be, Michaels still denies he's ready to part with the comedy institution he birthed in 1975. At the same time ...

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 ...

“Lorne’s success with the network is more a tribute to his guile and charm than it is to his being a bulldog,” said Downey, whom Michaels fired along with Macdonald. The goal was to simply ...

But fans of one of television’s best and most enduring comedy shows will immediately recognize it as a biography of Lorne Michaels, the creator and executive producer of “Saturday Night Live ...

Taylor Swift once asked Lorne Michaels to kill a “Saturday Night Live” sketch that poked fun at the singer’s “girl squad” — but he stood his ground and refused, according to a new report.

Despite her direct request to Lorne Michaels to scrap the sketch, it aired as planned. Swift later sent flowers, highlighting the playful feud but maintained her presence on the show. Taylor Swift ...

When he first gathered his newly assembled team to write the 1975 premiere episode of Saturday Night Live (then called, NBC’s Saturday Night), creator Lorne Michaels started with a simple credo ...