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  1. pilots
    Kenan Thompson’s Working With Lorne Michaels on a Sitcom for NBCIt appears to be Good Burger–less.
    By Jesse David Fox
  2. NBC Is Turning ‘Up All Night’ Into a Multi-Cam Comedy with a Live AudienceNBC is continuing to make some changes to its ratings-challenged Thursday night sitcom Up All Night. Deadline reports the network has ordered […]
    By Bradford Evans
  3. ‘The Wall Street Journal’s Profile of ‘SNL’s Cue Card Guy Is Eye-Opening“In the history of the show we’ve only had to shoot the cue-card guy twice.” -Lorne Michaels in a Wall Street Journal profile of Saturday […]
    By Bradford Evans
  4. C.K. and ‘SNL’: Louie’s 19-Year Backstory with the NBC Sketch ShowNBC just announced that Louis C.K. will be hosting Saturday Night Live on November 3rd. It’ll mark C.K.’s first appearance on the long-running […]
    By Bradford Evans
  5. Lorne Michaels Wants to Keep Jason Sudeikis Around for a Long Time“Jason’s very loyal so I think he’ll be here. He’s absolutely essential. I love him. I hope he stays a long time.” - Lorne Michaels, when […]
    By Bradford Evans
  6. Jim Carrey Is Stealing an Armored Car for Lorne Michaels Jim Carrey is in negotiations to star in a new comedy called Loomis Fargo, based on a real-life armored car heist, for producer Lorne […]
    By Bradford Evans
  7. The Lost Roles Interview with T.J. Miller “Lost Roles” is a weekly column exploring “what might have been” in movie and TV comedy, as we take a different actor, writer, or comedian […]
    By Bradford Evans
  8. The Lost ‘SNL’ Reality Show: Will Sketch Comedy Ever Have Its Own […]American Idol has been the #1 show on TV for the better part of the last decade, and given its raging popularity, it’s pretty surprising that […]
    By Bradford Evans
  9. Bill Hader Roundtabled with Rock, Stiller, and CarreyIn our interview last week, Bill Hader mentioned interviewing Chris Rock at the Nantucket Film Festival. Well, apparently, this interview was […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  10. shake-ups
    Jay Pharoah Will Play Obama on SNL This SeasonAnd Taran Killam will play Paul Ryan.
    By Margaret Lyons
  11. Talking with Bill Hader about ‘SNL’, Impressions, Breaking, Lorne […]On October 1, 2005 Bill Hader debuted on SNL, feeling lucky and surprised to be there. Now, seven years later, it seems like not much has […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  12. Lorne Michaels Had a Kinda Funny, Kinda Creepy Form Letter to Respond to […]By 1976 SNL was in full-swing and likely immediately afterward Lorne Michaels started receiving top-notch submissions for sketches like: Jimme […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  13. the oscars
    Lorne Michaels Isn’t Producing the OscarsABC rejects Jimmy Fallon, Lorne Michaels rejects ABC.
    By Sarah Bennett
  14. Hannibal Talks Pissing Himself at an ‘SNL’ Party What happens at the SNL season finale party, apparently doesn’t stay at said party. Stories are traded like comedy currency. We got to see […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  15. Jimmy Fallon Was Almost Going to Host Next Year’s Oscars, MaybeLast Night the LA Times reported that Jimmy Fallon was in talks to host and Lorne Michaels was in talks to produce the Academy Awards. This […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  16. feature
    Inside ‘The New Show,’ Lorne Michaels’ Early-80s Sketch Show FlopIn the Broadway Video offices, I asked a couple of staffers if they had tapes of The New Show. “Of course,” replied the taller one. “We have […]
    By Dennis Perrin
  17. party chat
    Lorne Michaels and Fred Armisen on Kristen Wiig’s Farewell SegmentAnd he says Samberg and Sudeikis aren’t going anywhere.
    By Jennifer Vineyard
  18. Paul Simon Writes about Lorne Michaels Cracking Jokes to Dead Sharks“I remember a summer Sunday walking along the beach in Sagaponack. Lorne was, again, telling me something about himself as we approached a […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  19. The Lost Roles of Gilda RadnerLost Roles is a weekly column that takes a particular comedic performer or writer and dives deep into all of their movie and TV projects that […]
    By Bradford Evans
  20. Alec Baldwin Reveals That Jonah Hill And Justin Bieber Are Hosting SNL SoonLorne Michaels is the guest on Alec Baldwin’s Here The Thing podcast this week (which if you haven’t listened to yet, what are you doing […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  21. Lorne Michaels Will Guest on Alec Baldwin’s Podcast Here’s the Thing Alec Baldwin has secured the comedy podcast get to end all comedy podcast gets for Here’s the Thing: the man, the legend, the Lorne Michaels. […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  22. The Lost Roles of Tina FeyAfter making the transition from one American comedy institution (Chicago’s Second City Theatre) to another (Saturday Night Live), Tina Fey […]
    By Bradford Evans
  23. snl
    Watch a Shelved, Controversial SNL Cartoon From 1998Twelve years ago, SNL ended up shelving this cartoon about media monopolies.
    By Eliot Glazer
  24. The Lost Roles of Three AmigosThis week marks the 25th anniversary of Three Amigos, one of the best-regarded comedies of the 1980’s and one that brought together a […]
    By Bradford Evans
  25. The Lost Roles of Animal HouseLost Roles is a weekly column exploring what might have been in TV and film comedy, taking a different comedian, writer, or work each week and […]
    By Bradford Evans
  26. The Lost Weekend Update AnchorsWeekend Update is by far the longest running segment in Saturday Night Live’s history, with the anchor position being one of the most coveted […]
    By Bradford Evans
  27. The SNL Movies That Never HappenedEver since the first Wayne’s World movie became a surprise hit, making $183 million from of a scant $20 million budget, releasing a sea of […]
    By Bradford Evans
  28. Up All Night Recap: ‘Working Late and Working It’One of the benefits of Up All Night’s cast and crew being full of TV veterans is that they can call on their friends and colleagues to drop by […]
    By Bradford Evans
  29. The Lost Roles of Chevy ChaseSay what you will about the quality of Chevy Chase’s movies, but you have to admit his influence on modern American comedy is vast. As Saturday […]
    By Bradford Evans
  30. exclusive
    Guess Which SNL Vet Is Stopping By Up All Night?Hint: MacGruber!
    By Josef Adalian
  31. No SNL Cast Members Leaving This Season, Says Lorne It didn’t seem possible, but the chances of you playing Miley Cyrus on SNL this year are even lower than your chances of playing Miley Cyrus […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  32. funny business
    Kristen Wiig Is One of the ‘Top Three or Four’ SNL Cast Members Ever, Says Lorne MichaelsBut she’s still an anxious person.
    By Margaret Lyons
  33. The Hollywood Reporter Follows Lorne Michaels Around for an SNL Show WeekThe Hollywood Reporter has a pretty huge profile of Lorne Michaels that just went up, one that resulted from a writer hanging with him the […]
    By Adam Frucci
  34. Kenan Thompson to Star in Party StartersLorne Michaels is giving Kenan Thompson a movie, one called Party Starters. Nothing is known about the plot, other than the fact that it’ll be […]
    By Adam Frucci
  35. Christina Applegate Cast In Lorne Michaels’ New SitcomMy DVR is going to explode in a ball of flames if I try to cram another sitcom into it’s little electronic guts. This show, however, should be […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  36. exclusive
    Christina Applegate Goes From Real Mom to TV MomShe’s set to star in a show from ‘Parks and Rec’ scribe Emily Spivey.
    By Josef Adalian
  37. Lorne Michaels Gives a Masterclass on Comedy Here’s the first episode of Masterclass, from that Oprah channel. Essentially, it’s a 45-minute interview/profile of Lorne Michaels, full of […]
    By Adam Frucci
  38. tv
    Jennifer Aniston Turned Down Saturday Night Live’s Full-Time Job OfferInstead, she did ‘Friends.’
    By Kyle Buchanan
  39. The Day Comedy Won: How 30 Rock Beat Studio 60 on the Sunset StripLast month, NBC picked up 30 Rock for a sixth season, which must be celebrated as a miracle when one considers what Tina Fey’s “comedy show […]
    By Erik Voss
  40. Looking Back at Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-InThis week I’m taking a look at another show which predates modern sketch comedy in a number of ways but nonetheless serves an important step in […]
    By Carleton Atwater
  41. SNL and The Curse of the Transitional SeasonSomething isn’t quite right on Saturday Night Live this season. It’s not that the first three episodes of the 36th season have been bad, per […]
    By Sean Fennessey
  42. SNL Taking Over Larry King This FridayFriday at 9pm, a handful of SNL folks (Amy Poehler, Seth Meyers, Kristin Wiig, Fred Armisen, Andy Samberg and Lorne Michaels) will be on Larry […]
    By Adam Frucci
  43. What Does ‘Page Six’ Suddenly Have Against Lorne Michaels?Two unfavorable items in a week.
    By Lane Brown
  44. snl
    Betty White SNL Is Highest Rated in Eighteen MonthsWe’re not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  45. party lines
    Fallon, Wiig, Samberg Discuss SNLSee Lorne and more in the Party Lines slideshow.
    By Jada Yuan
  46. snl
    Lorne Michaels Open to More of Your Suggestions“Without question … if it was somebody we wanted.”
    By Lane Brown
  47. snl
    Betty White Not On SNL Quite YetLorne Michaels hasn’t caved to the demands of Facebook yet.
    By Mark Graham
  48. late shifting
    Lorne Michaels: O’Brien Will Prevail ‘Again’’SNL’ creator used to exec produce O’Brien’s ‘Late Night.’
    By Josh Duboff
  49. crusades
    Should Betty White Really Host SNL?Just us?
    By Mark Graham
  50. crusades
    Betty White to SNL Almost a Done DealNBC would round up ‘SNL’ alums to help the 88-year-old legend host.
    By Adam K. Raymond
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