A new book on Lorne Michaels, creator and producer of the long-running variety show “Saturday Night Live,” touches on one of ...

Read an exclusive excerpt from Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live below. On a Sunday in October 1978, Michaels found himself ... teen-age son, David; [Al] Franken happened to pick ...

Essential book for comedy fans on Lorne Michaels reveals the sometimes mysterious man behind "Saturday Night Live." It's by Susan Morrison, articles editor for the New Yorker, who has known ...

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 ...