By Jennifer Schuessler Photos, scripts ... A black-and-whtie photo of a young Lorne Michaels standing in front of a cork board covered in pinned note cards, talking to someone out of frame.

The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live” is the “definitive biography” of Lorne Michaels, written by Susan Morrison, an articles editor at The New Yorker. Michaels’ life story is ...

Throughout Jason Reitman’s new movie “Saturday Night,” a young Lorne Michaels ... Night.” – Sony Pictures Part of the real-life “SNL”’s magic is Michaels’ ability to identify ...

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 ...

“Look, my name is Lorne Michaels, I’m the producer of Saturday Night,” he says. “The whole night?” a security guard responds. “Yeah, the whole night.” In Studio 8H, announcer Don ...

and a young, unkempt TV generation that took power and held onto it until … well, the jury’s still out. “Lorne” is structured in six chronological sections of Michaels’s life and career ...