It’s about a rebel who became a king, and a young ... of Lorne Michaels from a striving out-of-towner to the ultimate insider, a Manhattan pasha with a raft of famous friends. (Conan O ...

Although Lorne Michaels is most often ... By giving unknowns a chance to shine, Michaels has boosted some truly amazing ...

As a new biography of the show’s creator, Lorne Michaels, makes clear ... That’s what they’re wired for. Conan O’Brien says that everyone believes that Lorne has the Secret.

Fan-favorite former Saturday Night Live cast member Bill Hader caused some major “frustration” for SNL boss Lorne Michaels, he and Conan O’Brien revealed Monday. O’Brien said he knew ...

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 ...

Then again, maybe the laughlessness is not so weird: Lorne ... (Michael O’Donoghue) and the exploding clowns (John Belushi, Chris Farley). The alpha entertainers, desperate to please (Conan ...

Call him the king of comedy, the sultan of sketch — or, as cast member Ego Nwodim has revealed she once did by mistake, “Daddy” — but Lorne ... for young comics, Michaels said.

As the creator of “Saturday Night Live,” Lorne ... Michaels demurs. “Everybody who had to know me, knew me,” he said. “I wasn’t in the public eye. But now, walking over here, a young ...

It has been Lorne Michaels's job for the last fifty years to make it seem as if they do, and to corral the egos and the talents on his staff into getting the show on the air, live. Since he ...

The book chronicles Michael ... Conan O’Brien tells Morrison, “Whenever I’m sitting around a table with anyone in the comedy world, there’s a gravitational pull to talk about Lorne.” ...