Get the latest gossip
Lorne Michaels Biographer Susan Morrison On ‘SNL50’, Her Subject’s Legacy And His Likely Next Act: “He’s Built This Whole Culture With Walls Around It”
Susan Morrison, author of a new biography of "Saturday Night Live" creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels, spoke to Deadline about his legacy.
The New Yorker editor managed to penetrate the still-secretive process of making the show, weaving in-the-room reporting from a week when Jonah Hill hosted in 2017 with hundreds of interviews, including many hours with Michaels himself. The result of those efforts, Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live, was published this week by Random House, just two days after the 50th anniversary prime-time special aired on NBC. It documents his winding journey to 30 Rock and revisits defining battles like an infamous showdown with NBC West Coast boss Don Ohlmeyer, who wanted Michaels to fire Chris Farley and Adam Sandler during a high point for the show in the 1990s.
Or read this on Deadline
