Susan Morrison's biography of the late-night comedy producer is also the history of a pop culture institution, now marking its 50th year.
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Review: The man who brought you ‘Saturday Night Live’ has had a wild lifeI don’t know of whom I’m more jealous, Lorne Michaels or Susan Morrison. The latter’s “Lorne” is one of the best biographies ...
Susan Morrison's "Lorne" offers a history of a man and a show that changed the comedy landscape — and has been doing so for ...
The best Saturday ... Night Live hosting gigs revolve around the gag that he’s a very serious actor who rarely seems to realize he’s in an SNL sketch. To be even more fair, that constant ...
It was less of a concept or observation than a baffling, unexpected contract: If you go with this extremely silly sketch ...
Like Sally O’Malley, Molly Shannon’s spry, bouffant-sporting quinquagenarian, “Saturday Night Live” is 50 years ... Nine-Nine”), Simon Rich (“Man Seeking Woman”), Emily Spivey ...
“Saturday ... Night Live,” told The Post that as she looks back, “You realize not only what an institution it is, but how it’s really shaped the culture.” She added: “Lorne Michaels ...
Her achievement is all the more remarkable because Michaels and his “Saturday Night Live” already are reasonably ... The chapters in between offer a history of a man and a show that changed ...
The most recent “Saturday Night Live” sketch to go viral — or at ... it was still a caricature of a gay man mostly written and performed by straight men. It was only in 2012, when Kate ...
As it happens, Susan Morrison, an editor at the New Yorker magazine, has written an encyclopedic doorstop subtitled “The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live.” It’s crammed with on- and off ...
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