"Saturday Night Live" mastermind Lorne Michaels and actress-singer Bette Midler. Five months after they were postponed because of the coronavirus, the annual Kennedy Center Honors are coming back ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The newest group of Kennedy Center honorees ... Steve Martin, Lorne Michaels, Lily Tomlin, Carol Burnett and Neil Simon. Bill Cosby received both honors, but they were ...

That was especially the case when it came to his former “SNL” boss and current executive producer, Lorne Michaels. “The delightful thing for me is that Lorne Michaels, who I owe everything ...

Lorne Michaels, had no idea the show would last beyond a few months. "When Lorne pitched the show to me, he said, ‘It’s 13 weeks with a five-year option,’" Newman tells PEOPLE of the SNL ...

Michaels still thinks the controversy over Gillis was overblown: “He said something stupid, but it got blown up into the end of the world.” Michaels also admits, “I was angry. I thought ...

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 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 ...

As the iconic sketch comedy show celebrates its 50th season, Michaels told to the Wall Street Journal that he had no control over the decision to remove Gillis from the cast. Gillis, 36 ...

Back in 2004, Lorne Michaels reflected on one thing everyone in the original cast of Saturday Night Live had in common. “Everybody that I chose had gone through some screw up in adolescence in ...

In a Wall Street Journal feature about the landmark 50th season of sketch comedy institution “Saturday Night Live,” executive producer Lorne Michaels reflects on the 2019 firing of Shane ...

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