Lorne Michaels Talks Jimmy Fallon, Conan O’Brien and His Eddie Murphy Mistake. As part of HRTS' newsmaker luncheon series, Martin Short peppered the "Saturday Night Live" producer about the ...

When Eddie Murphy makes his long-awaited “SNL” return on Saturday, ... Lorne Michaels left “SNL” following disputes with network executives. Although he eventually returned in 1985, ...

Murphy is not in the Lorne Michaels universe of stars. He broke out in that thin sliver of time when Michaels was away from the show he has since raised to iconic status.

When Eddie Murphy first appeared on “Saturday Night Live” in November 1980, the show was on the brink of extinction. Creator Lorne Michaels had departed before the sixth season, most of the ...

"Lorne [Michaels] fired him pretty ... E ddie Murphy, who'd recently departed from the show, told Damon, "Write your own ...

Lorne Michaels, the creator of the long-running sketch comedy television show “Saturday Night Live” has donated his career archive to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, the ...

Lorne Michaels could have nine more seasons of Saturday Night Live left in him. The SNL showrunner recently dropped a new hint about how long he plans to head the NBC sketch comedy show he created ...

Eddie Murphy's enduring mark on 'SNL,' the show he helped save from the brink. In June of 1982, NBC held a lunch in Los Angeles to publicize its then 6-year-old series, "Saturday Night Live ...

When Eddie Murphy makes his long-awaited “SNL” return on Saturday, ... For a brief period in the early 1980s, Lorne Michaels left “SNL” following disputes with network executives.

In June of 1982, NBC held a lunch in Los Angeles to publicize its then 6-year-old series, "Saturday Night Live," which had all but died two years earlier, when the producer chosen to succeed ...