Set over one madcap evening in the lead-up to the show's first broadcast, Saturday Night relishes the discomfort of a young Lorne Michaels (The Fabelmans' Gabriel LaBelle), squirming as he's ...

Having received a call from Michaels four days after President Biden stepped down from consideration as the Democratic nominee to take on Trump and Vance – paving the way for VP Harris and Gov.

Lorne Michaels created the veteran sketch comedy show, which premiered as "NBC's Saturday Night" in 1975 before switching to "Saturday Night Live" two years later. In January 2024 during the Emmy ...

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 ...

Saturday Night Live creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels has some regrets — and one of them was not getting comedian Shane Gillis to stay on the show as a cast member. Back in 2019 ...

Lorne Michaels, the creator of Saturday Night Live, has said that he didn’t want to fire Shane Gillis from the show but was ordered to by executives at NBC. In 2019, Gillis was fired shortly ...

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 ...

Lorne Michaels has said he was “angry” when Shane Gillis was fired from Saturday Night Live in 2019 over resurfaced jokes using racist and homophobic language. Speaking to The Wall Street Journal, the ...

"You haven’t seen what we’re going to do, and what I’m going to try to bring out in him, because I thought he was the real thing," Michaels remembered thinking. Lorne Michaels didn't want to fire ...