With Saturday Night Live currently playing through its 50th season on the 2025 TV schedule, that topic is certainly in the ...

Saturday Night Live has been run by the steady hand of its creator, Lorne Michaels. Save for a period of time when he left ...

It has been 50 years since the comedy sketch show Saturday Night Live hit NBC and became a weekly staple on many of our ...

The book has too many good Michaels stories to count, but we picked five of the most revealing tidbits that might help you better understand the man behind the show. Michaels made his first trip to ...

Susan Morrison's biography of the late-night comedy producer is also the history of a pop culture institution, now marking its 50th year.

Michaels got the final say when the superstar singer asked him to kill a sketch about her famous friend group back in 2015.

The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live,” the definitive biography of SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels, and joins The Excerpt to share her insights. Hit play on the player below to hear ...

Susan Morrison's "Lorne" offers a history of a man and a show that changed the comedy landscape — and has been doing so for almost 50 years.

On October 11, 1975, people tuning into the debut of a late-night comedy show saw something unlike any TV variety extravaganza they'd ever seen. Today, "Saturday Night Live," produced by Lorne ...

Saturday Night Live, now in its 50th year, is more than TV’s longest-running variety series—or the highest-rated entertainment show on broadcast television among a key demographic. As a new ...

In 'Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live,' Susan Morrison goes behind ... NBC by refusing to sign his contract . But Michaels felt confident that Baldwin would sign ...