Honestly, learning about Michaels’ claim on the cold open is stellar and an incredible easter egg to get amid Saturday Night Live ’s 50th Season. Here’s hoping that more insightful and shocking BTS stories continue to rise as we near the reunion and the second half of this historic season.

In the middle of the second season, Chase left SNL behind for Hollywood movie roles, with one of his most well-known roles, in Caddyshack, following only a few years later in 1980. But Chase seemed to blame Michaels for his SNL departure.

Bill Hader was "prone to anxiety attacks" during his time on 'Saturday Night Live', and, according to an excerpt from Susan Morrison's biography, Lorne Michaels' approach to the nerves was a bit aggressive.

Fair play, it seems, because it sounds like Michaels could be a dick a lot of the time, too. The New Yorker references in a moment in the oral history Live From New York where Michaels once told Odenkirk “I’ll break your fucking legs” for whispering in a staff meeting.

Over the past fifty years, the job of Lorne Michaels, the show’s creator, has been to make the stars look good, and to corral the egos and talents on his staff in order to get the program on the ...

And yet a half-century later, producer Lorne Michaels and his merry maniacs are still at it. What gives? Explaining aspects of that improbable run is the mission of a new Peacock docuseries ...

Michaels, the creator of “Saturday Night Live,” has donated his papers to the university’s Harry Ransom Center.

The Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin announced Wednesday it has acquired the archive of the "Saturday Night Live" creator. The acquisition includes correspondence, scripts and photos from Michaels's teenage years through his storied career.

Kyle Mooney is one of the most unique comedic voices in Saturday Night Live history, but he was convinced he blew his audition.

After 50 years of pushing the boundaries of network television, Saturday Night Live has birthed countless talents across multiple generations. Robert Downey Jr. and Anthony Michael Hall recently looked back on their brief run on the NBC sketch comedy show during the infamous Season 11,

Damon Wayans was a cast member during season 11 of SNL, when the show had an overhaul on existing stars participating.