Lorne Michaels

News Feed Advertise Downloads Contact Us | Privacy Policy Home Blog Comedians Clubs Features Reviews Comedy Videos Comedy Tickets 30 Jun, 2011   | by Punchline Magazine Audio/Video Basing a network comedy series around a married couple trying to balance their own relationship with raising a child is nothing new. But, as we all know, in the comedy world, it’s near impossible to create...Read Full Story

By Carrie Andersen | August 2, 2011 at 9:26 am | One comment | feature slider , news , opinion | Tags: 30 rock , alec baldwin , jack mcbrayer , Jane Krakowski , lorne michaels , nbc , saturday night live , tina fey , tracy morgan Remember a while back when Alec Baldwin was all “Show’s over!” in regard to 30 Rock ’s next season? He hasn’t commented on the series’ longevity in recent days, but executive producer and Saturday Night Live godfather Lorne Michaels has. And all I have to say is...Read Full Story

Welcome to the devotees of Saturday Night Live episodes ! I know you guys are looking for a scintillating piece of information related to your darling Saturday Night Live series. Are you ready in your comfy couches? Then here we go… Politics, social issues, humor, satire and a special host are the key ingredients of any satirical and comical show. Lorne Michaels is someone who experimented well with all these components and gave us Saturday Night Live, which is perhaps the most amazing...Read Full Story

“30 Rock” producer Lorne Michaels is to be honored at the 2010 International Emmy Awards gala for his work on star-studded U.S. comedy sketch show “Saturday Night Live”. The SNL creator and executive producer is to receive the Directorate Award at the 38th annual event in New York on November 22. The late night variety show has featured celebrity hosts including Tom Hanks, Betty White and Steve Martin during its 35 years on air. International Academy president & CEO Bruce Paisner says...Read Full Story

It’s not like he’s been the amazing presence, say Alec Baldwin or Steve Martin has been for the show, so it’s not that we’d feel an incredible emptiness if Charlie Sheen never hosted Saturday Night Live again, but at least we know the option is still there for him to do it. SNL honcho Lorne Michaels told the New York Daily News this week that he’d be happy to have Sheen back. “Not anytime soon,” Michaels said, “but he’s done it before and I’m sure he will again one day.” In our opinion...Read Full Story

For his 35 years at the helm of Saturday Night Live as well as launching a great many movie careers (and wholly changing the face of television comedy), Lorne Michaels will be honored with the International Emmy Directorate Award. “With Saturday Night Live, Lorne Michaels opened the door to a new kind of comedy on television and since then nearly everyone has walked through it. He has changed our entertainment, affected our politics, and shaped the way we view the world,” said International...Read Full Story

Saturday Night Live has been a bad show for years. Lorne Michaels has been the driving force behind this cultural phenom of bad television and skits for the past forty years. As long as this son of a bitch is still around you can bet this show will be around. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone magazine Lorne worries about his pathetic creation and how it will survive when he no longer is surviving and running things at NBC. I look forward to the day when this television program is no...Read Full Story

New York — “I’m a dead ringer,” the former Saturday Night Live cast member pointed out, “and it would be hilarious to bring both me and [Tina] Fey back for the election season.”  Though Meadows believed that “the viewers would love it,” Saturday Night Live producer, Lorne Michaels, was not in complete agreement. When reached for comment, Michaels remarked that Meadows was “pretty funny” and contributed some “good stuff” to the show.  “Look, I just think it’s best for both parties to...Read Full Story

Deadline.com Saturday Night Live alumna Maya Rudolph is reuniting with her former SNL boss Lorne Michaels , ex-SNL writer Emily Spivey and NBC on Spivey's comedy pilot for the peacock network, which Michaels is executive producing. Word is Rudolph is set for the co-lead opposite Christina Applegate in the untitled project, an irreverent look at parenthood through the POV of an acerbic... Discussion: Perez HiltonRead Full Story

Pro tip to any aspiring celeb stalkers out there: Stick to off-camera talent, and you can apparently get away with a lot more. 32-year-old Evans Pidhajecky , accused of stalking Saturday Night Live's exec producer Lorne Michaels , walked out of a New York court today a free man, told by the court to go forth and stalk no more. Pidhajecky was charged after popping up in person at  Michaels' place of work, 30 Rockefeller, several times, as well as Michaels' home near Central Park. New York...Read Full Story