SNL’s enigmatic creator and producer, Lorne Michaels ... between Chase and the rest of the cast continued to mount. John Belushi had a particularly tough time dealing with Chase’s sudden ...

Bill Murray has revealed that he "wept three times" during Saturday Night Live's 50th anniversary special in February. "It ...

The New Yorker editor, Susan Morrison shares the definitive biography of Lorne Michaels, the man behind America’s most ...

She said: "I went to see Lorne and said ... Morrison shared one instance in which John Belushi showed up unannounced in Michaels' lobby early in the morning. She said Michaels learned from ...

Lorne gives us a history of television ... person was as essential as every other person. You know, John Belushi is essential as Michael O’Donoghue, who was on the writing staff, who is as ...

It was a replay of the night in October 1975, when, just before t he premiere episode of SNL, John Belushi alarmed NBC by refusing ... has more than a passing resemblance to Lorne Michaels. A good ...

In 'Lorne: The Man Who Invented ... just before t he premiere episode of SNL, John Belushi alarmed NBC by refusing to sign his contract . But Michaels felt confident that Baldwin ...

As the creator of “Saturday Night Live,” Lorne Michaels has shaped ... Image From left, Chevy Chase, Michaels, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi and then-President Gerald Ford in 1976.

Susan Morrison may have ruined “Saturday Night Live” for a legion of journalists assigned to cover the world of late-night TV. Morrison spent years chatting up Lorne Michaels, the NBC impresario who ...

For a biography of a man whose business is comedy, Susan Morrison’s Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live is weirdly barren of laughs. Across 600 extremely interesting pages, I LOLed exactly ...

Morrison spent years chatting up Lorne Michaels, the NBC impresario ... Who would have thought Chevy Chase and John Belushi would have become pop-culture figures rather than fringe ones?