Saturday Night Live kicked off its fourth season in 1978 with one of the show's most unconventional emcees to date, the ...

Lorne Michaels, the creator, executive producer and Grand Poobah of “SNL,” wasn’t pleased by its “mawkish righteousness,” writes Susan Morrison in her new book “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday ...

The SNL honcho returned to his hometown of Toronto in 1978 to testify on the guitarist's behalf as he faced serious drug charges in Canada ...

a new plane of absurdity, a new something. Michaels, when he talks about Kaufman, sounds atypically wonderstruck: “It was as beautiful a thing as you could witness,” he recalls in Lorne.

The book has too many good Michaels stories to count, but we picked five of the most revealing tidbits that might help you ...