According to The New York Post, Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels has a stalker.
Evan Pidhajecky, a 31-year-old Long Island resident, didn’t send Mr. Michaels love letters or threaten to commit suicide as Uma Thurman’s personal stalker did earlier this year. Rather, he just wanted the SNL producer to admit that he had Read More
Lorne Michaels told reporters Sunday that he plans to premiere Jimmy Fallon as the new host of Late Night on the internet. He plans five or six months of webcasts prior to the 2009 debut of Mr. Fallon’s version of the show, according to TV Week.
The Observer interviewed Mr. Michaels about preparing Mr. Read More
According to The Hollywood Reporter‘s Alex Woodson, Saturday Night Live executive producer Lorne Michaels received a “lifetime achievement award for the role that ‘Saturday Night Live’ has played in the development of online video” at last night’s Webby Awards.
A lifetime moves pretty fast these days. Wasn’t it just December 17, 2005 when SNL‘s Read More
Last week, at a press conference at NBC headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Center announcing that he would take over for Conan O’Brien on NBC’s Late Night next year, when Mr. O’Brien moves into Jay Leno’s big chair, Jimmy Fallon looked just a little sheepish.
“I’m very excited about this,” he told the crowd of Read More
Over the past year, viewers tuning into Saturday Night Live have seen Hillary Clinton depicted as a ruthless, power-hungry, arrogant witch.
On the rare occasions that Barack Obama’s name is so much as mentioned, he receives gentle, if not admiring, treatment.
And so it only seemed to confirm the existing suspicions of Read More
In case you missed it, here’s how the producers of Saturday Night Live found a solution—albeit a temporary one—to their Barack Obama casting dilemma.
Lorne Michaels, the creator and executive producer of Saturday Night Live, is a big fan of YouTube.
“I think that YouTube is great, because if you do something like ‘Dick in a Box,’ someone in Pakistan can see it,” said Mr. Michaels in a phone interview.
He was referring to the now-ubiquitous skit by SNL Read More
Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live , by Tom
Shales and James Andrew Miller. Little, Brown, 594 pages, $25.95.
Saturday Night , the original name of the show later and better known as Saturday Night Live , had to make do with its shorter name during its first season, Read More
Wednesday, oct. 17
The anthrax cases at NBC and ABC News have raised a number
of troubling questions for news networks around the city. Amid the obvious
human concerns, there’s now a practical issue: Where do you do the news if you
can’t use the newsroom?
On Friday, Oct. 12, NBC moved its NBC Read More
