If Lorne Michaels is the father of “Saturday Night Live,” then Rosie Shuster is its criminally under-acknowledged mother.

If Lorne Michaels is the father of “Saturday Night Live,” then Rosie Shuster is its criminally under-acknowledged mother. Michaels may be prolific for his ability to wrangle talent and ...

At the center of all the televised festivities for the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live is Lorne Michaels, the ...

How featuring the rushed and imperfect work of brilliant, stressed-out comics made SNL a comedy bastion.

In 1975, Lorne Michaels’s brash experiment was ... to the show’s female writers (including Anne Beatts and Rosie Shuster, Michaels’s then-wife) tend to focus on, well, Belushi: “He felt ...