And Your Host… A running theme amidst the months-long celebration of Saturday Night Live‘s 50th anniversary has been the myth of Lorne Michaels. I say myth not as a negative, ...

On a special episode (first released on February 19, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: 50 years ago, a Canadian comedian named Lorne Michaels kicked ... Of course, they did Bill Clinton, they did ...

The Chevy Chase/Michael O’Donoghue feud started over an impossibly long screenplay. The two comic minds had worked together for years, well before Saturday Night Live. After Chase stumbled his way int ...

This all started 50 years ago with a group known as the "Not Ready for Primetime Players," the first cast of "Saturday Night Live," along with writers, creator Lorne Michaels, and early replacement ...

creator Lorne Michaels, and early replacement Bill Murray. Keep scrolling to see vintage photos of "SNL" in its earliest days — and what some would call its best days. The first cast consisted ...

SNL’s enigmatic creator and producer, Lorne Michaels, has been characteristically silent; Michaels has never been a huge fan of the press despite his status as a comedy-industry kingmaker.