Lily Tomlin served as host and musical guest during the first season of the sketch show in 1975 and again in 1983. The first time around, she sang with Howard Shore & the All Nurse Band, and on the ...

A collage of images, including of Lorne Michaels with Mick Jagger and an image of an outfit worn by one of Gilda Radner’s characters. By Jennifer Schuessler Photos, scripts, hate mail and other ...

For decades, Saturday Night Live hosts and cast members have praised creator and producer Lorne Michaels. Back in 1975, a then-30-year-old Lorne introduced the cutting-edge sketch comedy series to ...

In 'Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live,' Susan Morrison goes behind the scenes of a tense meeting just days before the 2006 upfronts. By Seija Rankin Senior Editor If you purchase an ...

“SNL” alum Dana Carvey is spilling the tea on the recent texts he received from show creator Lorne Michaels, who’s seemingly enthralled by the ongoing legal battle between Blake Lively and ...

As a new biography of the show’s creator, Lorne Michaels, makes clear, the American public has taken ownership of SNL and refused to relinquish its grip. The show has become a personal artifact ...

Before he was the enigmatic ringmaster behind Saturday Night Live, Lorne Michaels was a kid from Forest Hill who hoped to make it big in his home country, then headed to the US when that didn’t ...

In one section, 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.” SNL is currently on ...

Two weeks after the Rolling Stones hosted Saturday Night Live in 1978, Lorne Michaels served as a character witness for Keith Richards as the guitarist battled a drug charge in Canada that could ...

“Lorne: 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 ...