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 ...

A collage of images, including of Lorne Michaels with Mick Jagger and an image of an outfit worn by one of Gilda Radner’s characters. By Jennifer Schuessler Photos, scripts, hate mail and other ...

50 years ago, a Canadian comedian named Lorne Michaels kicked off the first season ... and he noticed that the rest of the culture, the movies, there were huge groundbreaking movies being put ...

There was a Jason Reitman origin-story movie called “Saturday Night ... A 600-plus page biography of Michaels titled “Lorne,” by Susan Morrison, an editor at The New Yorker, comes ...

The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live” is the “definitive biography” of Lorne Michaels, written by Susan Morrison, an articles editor at The New Yorker. Michaels’ life story is ...

Lorne Michaels, the inimitable man behind “Saturday Night Live,” has his story definitively told for the first time in a new biography from Susan Morrison. After coming earlier this month, ahead of ...

Writing the character, Fey and Carlock would ask themselves: What would Lorne do? Some of Donaghy’s precepts are Michaels-esque in the extreme: “Never go with a hippie to a second location.” ...