Lorne Michaels Has a Stalker

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

For Digital Video, Three Years Passes in a Lifetime

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

What, Me Host?

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

SNL’s Obama Challenge: He’s Not Goofy Enough

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

Lorne Michaels: SNL Misses Its Dicks in a Box

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