“There’s almost nothing we did in the ’70s that I could do now,” the story quotes Michaels as saying ... Photo courtesy NBC: Lorne Michaels at the 2022 Emmy Awards.

Over the past fifty years, the job of Lorne Michaels, the show’s creator, has been to make the stars look good, and to corral the egos and talents on his staff in order to get the program on the ...

Spade recalled repertory player Sarah Sherman telling him she “texted [Lorne Michaels] and said, ‘Why did my sketch get cut?’” But a bewildered Spade thought, “I’m like, you text Lorne?