Lorne Michaels
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Inside the S.N.L. Audition Room February 27, 2025
By the time Saturday Night Live had been around for a quarter of a century, in 2000, a folklore developed among S.N.L. aspirants around the way Lorne Michaels hires people. (The protocols have remained consistent during the second 25 years.) There we...
Lorne’s Prime Time February 24, 2025
In a season five episode of the estimable sitcom 30 Rock, itself based on the goings-on of a network television show closely modeled on Saturday Night Live, the writer and producer Aaron Sorkin makes a cameo as himself. Introduced to Tina Fey’s ever-...
A Half-Century of ‘Saturday Night’ February 17, 2025
Lorne Michaels once said that the best cast of NBC’s Saturday Night Live was the one from when you, the viewer, were in high school....
Lorne Michaels Is the Real Star of SNL January 14, 2025
Every week at “Saturday Night Live” is just like every other week. The weeks are the same because they’re always fuelled by hard work, filled with triumphs and failures and backstage arguments, and built around a guest host—Jennifer Lopez, Lizzo, Elo...
