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Saturday Night Live boss Lorne Michaels has opened up about a variety of topics including how talent on the long-running show deal with fame, controversial hirings and firings, how long he'll remain on the show and cost-cutting. Michaels, in a rare interview with the New York Times, said that some…

There are a plenty of longtime Saturday Night cast members, yet there were no big exits — or hints of departures — on tonight's Season 49 finale of the venerable NBC late-night program. No SNL veterans were tearing up at the end of their sketches like Kate McKinnon did in the 2022 finale, it was all…

"I'm not afraid to testify at all, I'm just not going to out of fear," said James Austin Johnson 's Donald Trump from the hall of a Manhattan courthouse in the cold open tonight of the final show of SNL's 49th season. Set to pick up with the defense's case on May 20, Trump's hush money trial is never…

In a new interview with David Letterman’s Netflix show, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, John Mulaney revealed something Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels shared about sobriety and addiction. Mulaney recalled how Michaels invoked John Belushi, who died in 1982 at 33 after struggling…

The View co-host Joy Behar once auditioned for Saturday Night Live. It did not go well. The 81-year-old recalled the 1975 moment Wednesday on The View’s companion podcast, Behind the Table. “There was a period I tried to get on, because I had this funny character that I did. I had to audition…

Seth Meyers is sharing his thoughts on rumors that Lorne Michaels is ready to bid farewell to Saturday Night Live and retiring from the NBC late-night sketch show. The Late Night host recently made an appearance on Mike Birbiglia’s Working It Out, where the podcast host asked Meyers about Michaels…

In an appearance on Dana Carvey and David Spade’s Fly on the Wall podcast, Sharon Stone thanked longtime Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels for saving her life. Stone was hosting SNL in 1992 when Michaels’ heroics happened. It was right after the release of Stone’s controversial role in the…

Bowen Yang has been taking subtle digs at the decisions being made on Saturday Night Live recently. The actor seemingly called out the show after Nikki Haley’s surprise cameo during the cold open of the latest episode, which was hosted by Ayo Edebiri. In a since-deleted Instagram post on Monday…

EXCLUSIVE: Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night Live origin pic is gaining a ton of momentum as Gabriel LaBelle is set to play Lorne Michaels, Cooper Hoffman is on board to play Dick Ebersol and Rachel Sennott will play Rosie Shuster. Reitman will write and direct. SNL 1975 is based on the real-life…

As the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live approaches, there has been speculation about Lorne Michaels’ future on the show as executive producer. While walking the red carpet at the Emmys, Michaels was asked about his retirement plans and said he would make a decision around the time the show…

NBC didn’t want Jimmy Fallon to host Late Night at first. The Saturday Night Live alum revealed during a recent Strike Force Five podcast episode that Lorne Michaels helped him land the job, which he held from from 2009 until 2014, Fallon was exploring a film career when Michaels threw out the…

UPDATED: More studios are suspending additional overall and first-look deals almost four and a half months into the WGA strike. I hear the NBCUniversal studios — both film and TV — have suspended the pacts for all non-writing producers who no longer can render services as a result of the ongoing…