Who remembers Robin Williams yelling “Shazbot!” — the all-purpose, TV-friendly alien curse word that lent Mork & Mindy part ...

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.

Before he was the enigmatic ringmaster behind Saturday Night Live, Lorne Michaels was a kid from Forest Hill who hoped to make it big in his home country, then headed to the US when that didn’t ...

“Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live” is the “definitive biography” of Lorne Michaels, written by Susan Morrison, an articles editor at The New Yorker. Michaels’ life story ...

Richards most recently made an appearance at the sketch show's 50th anniversary special Arturo Holmes/Peacock via Getty; Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty Lorne Michaels once helped keep Keith Richards ...

Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels helping Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards avoid a life sentence in Canadian prison sounds like, well, an SNL skit. But in 1977, life really would ...

Or reasonably close to everything, at least in the world of television. After a half-century of running arguably the most talked-about entertainment show ever broadcast, Lorne Michaels can fairly lay ...

Read an exclusive excerpt from "Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live" by Susan Morrison.

In 'Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live,' Susan Morrison goes behind the scenes of a tense meeting just days before the 2006 upfronts. By Seija Rankin Senior Editor If you purchase an ...

As a new biography of the show’s creator, Lorne Michaels, makes clear, the American public has taken ownership of SNL and refused to relinquish its grip. The show has become a personal artifact ...

In one section, Conan O’Brien tells Morrison, “Whenever I’m sitting around a table with anyone in the comedy world, there’s a gravitational pull to talk about Lorne.” SNL is currently on ...

Throw in the sheer tonnage of think pieces and appreciations and other navel-gazing and you’d be forgiven for asking: Do we also need a book about Lorne Michaels? Somehow, despite all of the ...