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That Time Lorne Michaels Visited John Mulaney On His Netflix Set And Everyone Was ‘Too Scared’ To Tell Him He Was Standing In The Wrong Spot
Former Cheers cast members are raising a glass to series regular George Wendt, who died Tuesday at the age of 76. Wendt, ...
John Mulaney on the ‘scary' visit from Lorne Michaels to the set of ‘Everybody's in L.A'
John Mulaney and his team of writers came together for a special screening and Q&A for the three-time Emmy winner's Netflix ...
I Had No Idea Everyone At SNL Was Terrified Of Getting Sent To 17, But Questlove Explained Why It's 'Worse Than Getting Reported To HR'
Questlove talked about that this past week. He was apparently minding his own business over at 30 Rock when he got a call to ...
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Lorne Michaels banned Chris Farley from ‘SNL’ for weeks due to his ‘addiction issues,’ author claims
Susan Morrison, author of the biography “Lorne: The Man Who Invented ... with drugs and alcohol on the “SNL” set. Morrison recalled that Michaels, 80, went into overdrive to help Farley ...
'I didn't have a bored day in my life': SNL's master carpenter retires after 50 years
Stephen “Demo” DeMaria, known as "The Boss of the Carpenters," who has built every set since Saturday Night Live’s 1975 debut ...
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Lorne Michaels Banned Chris Farley From ‘SNL’ for ‘Weeks at a Time’ to Help Him Get Off ‘the Drinking and the Drugs’: He ‘Clearly Had Addiction Issues’
but “SNL” creator Lorne Michaels wouldn’t always allow him on the set of the prolific late-night sketch show. During a recent appearance on Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast (via ...
Lorne Michaels Told Jack Black He Thought Desi Arnaz Was Going to Die in the Middle of His 1976 SNL Episode
Jack Black said in a new interview that Lorne Michael was "worried" about him going too hard during his recent 'Saturday Night Live' hosting gig, and told him a story about Desi Arnaz performing on ...
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A new biography of Lorne Michaels captures the man behind SNL
“Lorne” charts the rise and fall of SNL over the ensuing decades, including from 1980 to 1985, when Michaels was unceremoniously fired from the show and eventually restored to the throne ...