Bill Maher believes a Saturday Night Live sketch starring Tom Hanks was an example of out-of-touch, liberal writers telling a ...

“Saturday Night Live” was more reflective than festive in the final ... The 50th season brought much media discussion of who might run the show should 80-year-old creator Lorne Michaels ever step down ...

Lorne Michaels had some legitimate fears when Jack Black hosted Saturday Night Live in April 2025. During a recent guest spot on the Fly on the Wall podcast, Black told hosts Dana Carvey and David ...

Susan Morrison, author of the biography “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live,” recently appeared on Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast and explained how Lorne Michaels h ...

Abbott Elementary” star and creator Quinta Brunson is short and isn’t afraid to flaunt it. Hosting “Saturday Night Live” for ...

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 ...

In fact, Morrison recalled Bob Odenkirk — who was an SNL writer from 1987 to 1991 — telling her that Farley was “excited” to be called into Michaels ... about how Lauren is a really ...

Tina Fey has heard the rumors about potentially replacing Lorne Michaels as the head honcho at Saturday Night Live. The 30 Rock star responded to Michaels' comment that she "could easily" take ...

He studied old Jack Benny scripts ... “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 ...

One of the projects Michaels worked on during his time away from SNL in the ‘80s, she was there to learn the same lessons the impresario himself gathered before heading back to his television child.

The author of Saturday Night Live boss Lorne Michaels’ new biography revealed that he made a surprising confession to her about his life amid the heightened attention the show has gotten in the ...

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.