Lorne Michaels revealed once and for all that it was NBC’s decision to fire Shane Gillis from “Saturday Night Live” after the comedian’s past homophobic comments and racist remarks about ...

And while a statement at the time attributed the shocking decision to Lorne Michaels, the SNL boss now says the decision actually came from the network. “That was very strong from the people in ...

NBC executives decided to fire Gillis after the comedian's racist comments on a podcast resurfaced. “Saturday Night Live” creator and producer Lorne Michaels is speaking out on his recent show ...

Lorne Michaels has opened up, again, about the decision to fire Shane Gillis from Saturday Night Live before he’d ever stepped on the Studio 8H stage. Gillis was fired in September 2019 ...

Because of that, I was asked to audition for the Not Ready for Prime Time Players [the working title for SNL], and I went ... that kind of treatment from Lorne Michaels, as he explained: I will ...

NBC's "Saturday Night Live" seems like it's been part of the entertainment firmament forever. The brainchild of Canadian comedy writer Lorne Michaels kicked off nearly a half-century ago ...

Lorne Michaels is known as the father of Saturday Night Live, but in his everyday life, he’s also a father of three. The television mogul has been married to his third wife, Alice Barry ...

as Lorne Michaels; Rachel Sennott, as Rosie Shuster; and Matt Wood, as John Belushi in “Saturday Night.” – Sony Pictures Part of the real-life “SNL”’s magic is Michaels’ ability to ...

Lorne Michaels is putting the onus on NBC over the "Saturday Night Live" firing of Shane Gillis. The "SNL" creator said he was "angry" over the decision in a new profile in the Wall Street Journal.