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Lorne Michaels Said ‘SNL’ Is ‘Nonpartisan’ and ‘You Can’t Be Samantha Bee.’ She Now Claps Back: He’s ‘Built a Career Out of Elevating the Loudest Guy in the Room’

Lorne Michaels said 'SNL' is nonpartisan because "you can't be like Samantha Bee." Now she responds.

Samantha Bee is clapping back at “Saturday Night Live” boss Lorne Michaels, who makes a diss at her in his upcoming memoir “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live.” The former “Daily Show” correspondent and “Full Frontal” host appeared on “The Daily Beast Podcast” and weighed in on Michaels’ criticism, saying: “It’s never exciting to be referenced in a negative way in someone else’s biography that’s gonna do really well.” Michaels’ biographer, Susan Morrison, spoke to the “ SNL ” boss two weeks before Donald Trump was first elected president in November 2016. “It’s the hardest thing for me to explain to this generation that the show is nonpartisan,” Michaels says in the book (via The Daily Beast) in response to the outrage over Trump’s hosting gig.

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