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His first wife was Rosie Shuster, is the daughter of his comedy mentor Frank Shuster. ("There's a comfort level," he says.) The show has good years and bad years, like the New York Yankees, or the Dow, and the audience has come to feel something like ownership of it. Since he created the show, in 1975, he has periodically tweaked and fine-tuned it, paying attention to how the cultural winds are drifting.
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Jonah Hill was the host of that episode (for the fifth time, granting him entry into the show’s tongue-in-cheek Five-Timers Club), and Morrison seems to be everywhere in the bustle, observing everyone and paying special attention to the subtexts of fealty and rivalry. In 2012, Michaels was awarded an Individual Peabody Award.
It was Schlosser who wanted the show broadcast live with young talent and rotating hosts — he thought the first host should be Bob Hope — but the rest was up to Michaels, who scoured the comedy landscape for writers (Michael O’Donoghue and Anne Beatts, Al Franken and Tom Davis) and performers (Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, John Belushi) destined to change television and global comedy culture.
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The company is known for producing such shows as Kids in the Hall, as well as films based on SNL sketch acts like Wayne’s World and Tommy Boy.
Additionally, Michaels is known for nurturing the SNL talent he discovers. At the 2004 Kennedy Center Honors, Michaels received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
The 50th season of SNL premiered in 2024 and will be celebrated the weekend of February 14 with a live concert, a re-airing of the original episode, and a three-hour live special on February 16. We have worked as daily newspaper reporters, major national magazine editors, and as editors-in-chief of regional media publications.
“There’s going to be a lot of emotional things of seeing people who I last saw when they were 25,” Michaels told The New York Times ahead of the special, adding that he hasn't read or seen any coverage of the anniversary “because something in it will hurt my feelings.”
After 50 years, times have certainly changed, but Michaels doesn’t think SNL or the comedy landscape is worse off.
And dislike of the other person.”
The bulk of “Lorne” is the tale of how he got that way. He grew up with two younger siblings, Mark and Barbara.
The first-ever episode of SNL will re-air on February 15 during the show’s Saturday night time slot.
Read the book's prologue below, and don't miss Mo Rocca's interview with Susan Morison on "CBS Sunday Morning" February 16!
"Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live"
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Prologue
Every week at Saturday Night Live is just like every other week.
(Conan O’Brien, who started his career as a writer on SNL, played a game called “Which Paul?” where you had to guess whether the subject of a Michaels anecdote was Paul Simon or Paul McCartney.) A member of the East Hampton landed gentry and the preeminent power player in the late-night-TV wars of the 1990s and early 2000s, Michaels is also a boss whom everyone feels compelled to do an impression of.
Soon after graduating from the University of Toronto, he set his sights on a career in entertainment.
Michaels partnered with fellow Canadian Hart Pomerantz, and the comedy duo developed a show for the Canadian Broadcasting Co., The Hart and Lorne Terrific Hour. Michaels met his current wife, Alice Barry, on the set of SNL. Barry worked as an assistant on the show at the time.
She is a graduate of Syracuse University, where she studied English literature. Is it?)
One thing you notice about “Lorne,” though, is that it is simply beautifully written — a model of research, narrative structure, concision and observation.
The studio brass and the critics hated “Saturday Night Live” at first, but the kids got it.