The current articles editor for The New Yorker, Morrison actually has a claim to fame that most devotees of the series would ...

It has been 50 years since the comedy sketch show Saturday Night Live hit NBC and became a weekly staple on many of our ...

Comedy Dept. co-chief Mike Berkowitz will use the 656-page biography by Susan Morrison to kick off periodic book assignments ...

The book has too many good Michaels stories to count, but we picked five of the most revealing tidbits that might help you better understand the man behind the show. Michaels made his first trip to ...

50 years ago, a Canadian comedian named Lorne Michaels kicked off the first season ... doing his one spectacular public flop, which was a comedy hour in prime time called The New Show.

Susan Morrison's biography of the late-night comedy producer is also the history of a pop culture institution, now marking its 50th year.

In a Q&A, Susan Morrison reveals how she got the famously private Lorne Michaels to open up for her new book and talks about ...

As the creator of “Saturday Night Live,” Lorne Michaels has shaped American comedy for half a century.Credit...Daniel Arnold for The New York Times Supported by By Maureen Dowd Is it possible ...

What does Lorne Michaels order when you meet for a drink ... Lily Tomlin, who hired Lorne to work on her comedy special in the 1970s, told me she always liked Canadians because they reminded ...

But fans of one of television’s best and most enduring comedy shows will immediately recognize it as a biography of Lorne Michaels, the creator and executive producer of “Saturday Night Live ...