it was just after the 40th anniversary of the show and I realized that no one has had a bigger effect on what Americans think is funny than Lorne Michaels. It's an enormous influence on the culture.

It has been 50 years since the comedy sketch show Saturday Night Live hit NBC and became a weekly staple on many of our ...

Lorne Michaels can’t stop talking about Blake ... Carvey said he found it “kind of funny.” When Carvey texted Michaels about the successful show, the producer allegedly replied with theories ...

Susan Morrison's "Lorne" offers a history of a man and a show that changed the comedy landscape — and has been doing so for ...

That is, to have Lorne Michaels say yes to an authorized memoir ... The people Lorne hires are smart, articulate, and funny, so talking to them was a journalist’s dream. [Ed.

NBC’s Saturday Night), creator Lorne Michaels started with a simple credo: “Let’s make each other laugh, and if we do, we’ll put it on television and maybe other people will find it funny.” ...

“It has to be an intelligent take and it has to be funny and it can’t be a lecture ... "Saturday Night Live" creator Lorne Michaels shared his vision for skewering politics on the show.

The result of those efforts, Lorne ... in determining what we find funny over 50 years,” she says. “That's a really large achievement.” The other aspect of Michaels is that he first ...

Michaels (born Lorne Lipowitz) was raised in a middle-class ... who avoids battle and seeks to win by attrition.” Though Michaels was funny, his greatest contribution was that he understood funny. He ...