There has been “an air of kismet” about Susan Morrison’s 10-years-in-the-making biography of Saturday Night Live creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels, the author said. The New Yorker editor ...

Longtime ‘New Yorker’ editor and writer Susan Morrison set out to write a biography of the historically press-averse ...

At the center of all the televised festivities for the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live is Lorne Michaels, the ...

Apparently, though, the email hadn’t gone to everyone at The New Yorker, “and there’s been infighting about it,” joked Holden Seidlitz, a fact-checker at the magazine. Morrison wouldn’t elaborate on ...

John Belushi had a particularly tough time dealing with Chase’s sudden fame and began acting out in response. “Belushi ...

SNL is the longest-running, most Emmy-nominated, and highest-rated weekly late-night show in television history. How has ...

Live” turns 50 this year, and a monumental biography of the man who created it attests to his enduring role as America’s ...

Lorne Michaels, the creator, executive producer and Grand Poobah of “SNL,” wasn’t pleased by its “mawkish righteousness,” ...

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On Thursday evening, New Yorker editor Susan Morrison sent out a mass email invitation to an event for her forthcoming ...

The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live, Susan Morrison chronicles the life of a visionary Torontonian who redefined what it ...

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