A second sketch, “Tina & Amy’s Dope Squad,” aired on SNL later that season. It featured Tina Fey and Amy Poehler recreating the “Bad Blood” music video, as well as appearances by Aidy Bryant, Gayle ...

When he first gathered his newly assembled team to write the 1975 premiere episode of Saturday Night Live (then called, NBC’s Saturday Night), creator Lorne Michaels started with a simple credo ...

As the creator of “Saturday Night Live,” Lorne Michaels has shaped American comedy for half a century.Credit...Daniel Arnold for The New York Times Supported by By Maureen Dowd Is it possible ...

Introduced by the rarely-seen Jack Nicholson, Adam Sandler sang a sweet and funny song all about Lorne Michaels on NBC's ...

Look what you made him do. Taylor Swift allegedly once asked “Saturday Night Live” creator Lorne Michaels to cut a sketch about her infamous “girl squad,” which he refused to do.

Morrison spent years chatting up Lorne Michaels, the NBC impresario who has seen “SNL” transform itself from an upstart, avant-garde program into an American institution on par with Apple ...

More Lorne Michaels SNL50 hagiography, this time from Vulture. It’s hard to craft a profile around a guy who won’t sit for an interview, much less craft one when there are at least half a ...

Call him the king of comedy, the sultan of sketch — or, as cast member Ego Nwodim has revealed she once did by mistake, “Daddy” — but Lorne Michaels will forever be the beating heart of ...

“Lorne’s success with the network is more a tribute to his guile and charm than it is to his being a bulldog,” said Downey, whom Michaels fired along with Macdonald. The goal was to simply ...

Taylor Swift’s 2015 girl squad was unforgettable, and so was her reaction to the Saturday Night Live sketch inspired by the group, per Lorne Michaels. The pop star made headlines that year with ...