At that time, Michaels was a 29-year-old comedy writer from Toronto, Canada. He served as a producer on SNL from 1975 to 1980, before taking a five-year hiatus to focus on other projects.

For decades, Saturday Night Live hosts and cast members have praised creator and producer Lorne Michaels. Back in 1975, a then-30-year-old Lorne introduced the cutting-edge sketch comedy series to ...

Lorne Michaels, the creator of the long-running sketch comedy television show “Saturday Night Live,” has donated ... It also includes some of 80-year-old Michaels' personal correspondence.

Read an exclusive excerpt from Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live below. On a Sunday in October 1978, Michaels found himself ... the fifty-­seven-­year-­old prime minister ...

But I don’t feel I’m done.” Michaels doesn’t do much press these days – he didn’t even take part in any of the four documentaries about SNL on Peacock – but he did speak to his old friend Maureen Dowd ...