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Lorne Michaels and his team are preparing to mark a half-century of Saturday Night Live in 2024 — a celebration that will include a night of nostalgia and SNL folklore at Radio City Music Hall. Michaels was speaking at Cannes Lions Festival during an event to mark the late-night comedy phenomenon. He…

Colin Jost opened the PEN America Gala under the iconic model of a blue whale at the Museum of Natural History calling himself "a writer and a friend of writers" and "extremely fortunate to be here tonight surrounded by two things that might not be around much longer — writers and ocean life. This is the…

Ted Sarandos, who was set to receive the PEN America Visionary Award at the literary group’s gala next week in NYC, won’t be attending amid an ongoing strike and vigorous picketing on both coasts by the WGA. Related Stories …

EXCLUSIVE: Saturday Night Live's editorial crew has said yes in a big way to its first-ever union contract at the Lorne Michaels-led NBC late-night show. Five days after the Editors Guild and NBCUniversal reached a tentative deal to advert an April 1 strike, the 20-plus SNL editorial crew unanimously…

Saturday Night Live paid tribute tonight to Erin Maroney Fraser, who got her start as a senior assistant to Lorne Michaels. Fraser died suddenly March 3 at age 53. According to a GoFundMe page set up for her children, she suffered a brain hemorrhage. Fraser held various roles at SNL, including as a…

Peacock has released a first look of Joe Pesci and Pete Davidson from Bupkis, its new comedy that is also written and executive produced by the former Saturday Night Live comedian. Bupkis is described as a heightened, fictionalized version of Davidson's real life. The series will combine grounded…

Lorne Michaels is gearing up for a transitional season of Saturday Night Live after a massive cast shakeup ahead of Season 48. The NBC sketch comedy series lost a total of 8 cast members and Michaels is talking about how that came about. “We got to a point where we had a lot of people, and people weren't getting…

Lorne Michaels is in the middle of making additions to Season 48 of Saturday Night Live. After winning the Emmy for Variety Sketch Series on Monday, Michaels addressed the "year of change" at the long-running NBC series. He said there will be at least four new cast additions. Deadline understands that Michaels is in…

A Pennsylvania woman filed legal papers today in an attempt to add Jimmy Fallon, Tracy Morgan and Lorne Michaels to a 2021 lawsuit in which she accuses then-Saturday Night Live castmember Horatio Sanz of sexually assaulting her when she was 17. According to the filing, Michaels fostered a predatory environment at SNL…

Saturday Night Live without its guiding light, producer Lorne Michaels, may be unthinkable to some. But there may be something brewing. Kenan Thompson, speaking on Charlamagne tha God’s “Hell of a Week” podcast, mused that when SNL hits its 50th anniversary in the 2024-2025 season, it may be time to…

The musical comedy will continue on Apple TV+: The streamer has ordered a second season of Schmigadoon! From creators Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio and executive producer Lorne Michaels, the series stars Cecily Strong, Keegan-Michael Key, Ariana DeBose, Dove Cameron, Jaime Camil, Kristin Chenoweth, Alan Cumming, Ann…

Pete Davidson made it abundantly clear during his “Weekend Update” farewell on Saturday Night Live that he owes a deep debt of gratitude to showrunner Lorne Michaels. But in this cut-for-time video, Davidson, who has become known for his SNL rap videos for the last two years, dives deeper into just how much he…