The show was in a bad place,” Carvey recalls. “I was told if we don't hit the ground running, they'll pull the plug at Christmas.” ...

And it was “not because it portrayed him as heartless,” according to The New Yorker’s profile of the show’s creator, Lorne ...

It may be Timothée Chalamet’s third time hosting Saturday Night Live, but it’s the two-time Oscar nominee’s first stint as a ...

the Shel Silverstein character who gives and gives of herself until she’s reduced to a stump,” The New Yorker’s Susan Morrison wrote in a profile of “SNL” creator Lorne Michaels that ...

Lorne Michaels, the show’s producer ... introducing us to songs like [James Brown’s ’69 hit] Mother Popcorn (You Got To Have A Mother For Me). They and Lou Marini helped us treat the ...

According to the creator of the long-running comedy sketch show, musical guests had never been barred from performing on the ...

Lorne Michaels, the creator of “Saturday Night Live,” has donated his archives to the Harry Ransom Center at University of Texas, including hundreds of boxes of material relating to the show ...

"To some, Michaels will bark, 'Don’t f--- it up,'" Susan Morrison writes in Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live, according to an excerpt in The New Yorker. David Spade Says It ...

By Caitlin Huston Business Writer Lorne Michaels has donated a collection of his work on Saturday Night Live and more to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas. “Lorne Michaels has ...

He’s ruled with absolute power for five decades, forever adding to his list of oracular pronouncements—about producing TV, ...

Lorne Michaels has given his personal archives — which provide a behind-the-scenes history of Saturday Night Live, as well as the producer’s other shows — to the University of Texas.

That said, per Lorne Michaels (who has been running SNL since the beginning), no musician has ever actually been banned from ...