By Jennifer Schuessler Photos, scripts ... A black-and-whtie photo of a young Lorne Michaels standing in front of a cork board covered in pinned note cards, talking to someone out of frame.

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 ...

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 show’s young head writers hated the sketch,” writes Morrison, “but Michaels liked that it was a corrective to the earnestness of ‘Hallelujah.’” ...

On a special episode (first released on February 19, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: 50 years ago, a Canadian comedian named Lorne Michaels kicked ... even from his young cast members for the ...

The Making of Lorne Michaels” to open in September with sketch drafts, correspondence, video, photos and artifacts that detail show production and highlight SNL's role as a comedic window into ...