To mark the occasion, we dug through some of more than 700 boxes of scripts, notes, memos, photographs, fan mail and hate mail that Lorne Michaels, the show’s creator and executive producer ...

As Michaels’ longtime friend, singer/songwriter Randy Newman, told the author, “Lorne’s got a real old-fashioned, 1930s hard-­boiled antenna for that kind of liberal bullshit.” 7 ...

At 80, Michaels is a unique, towering figure who has shaped comedy for half a century, turning the Art Deco tower at 30 Rockefeller Plaza into a portal for comedy stars on prime-time TV, in the ...

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 ...

Austin's Harry Ransom Center is now home to Lorne Michaels' SNL archive, ... With Austin’s reputation as a creative hub for arts, ... fans can tune in for SNL’s 50th Anniversary Show this ...

Lorne Michaels, left, Mike Myers as Wayne Campbell, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Hanks and Dana Carvey as Garth Algar on the set of “Saturday Night Live” in 1992.

Samantha Bee is clapping back at “Saturday Night Live” boss Lorne Michaels, who makes a diss at her in his upcoming memoir “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live.” The former ...

From left, David Spade, Lorne Michaels, and Chris Farley in a photo from 1995. The Ransom Center expects the collection to be completely available for research in Jan. 2026.