| International Standard Book Number |
9780812988871
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| International Standard Book Number |
0812988876
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
791.4502/32092
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| Personal Name |
Morrison, Susan, 1959 or 1960- author.
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| Title Statement |
Lorne : the man who invented Saturday Night Live / by Susan Morrison.
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| Varying Form of Title |
Man who invented Saturday Night Live.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Imprint |
New York : Random House, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
644 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimilies ; 25 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 601-613) and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Prologue -- Part one: Monday. Toronto the Good -- Two-man comedy -- On the assembly line -- Retreat -- Part two: Tuesday. The coast -- The music changed -- New wine in old bottles -- Going on the board the ark -- "A crypto-ballsy guy" -- Sketches, not skits -- Not ready for prime time -- Part three: Wednesday. Live from New York -- The friendship economy -- Foxhole writing -- Talk of the town -- The show itself speaking -- Bicentennial -- Starmaking -- Avant-garde v. garde -- Respectable -- Part four: Thursday. The fifth year of college -- In the wilderness -- Faking virginity -- The restoration -- Hands off, hands on -- Mentors, mentees -- Head-crushing -- Spinning off -- The Make-Fun-of-Lorne Show -- Part five: Friday. Saturday night dead -- "Is he doing me?" -- Interference -- The rules of coming and going -- "Can we be funny?" -- The big tent -- Not tonight -- The Trump bump, the plague year -- Part six: Saturday. Epilogue.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Over the fifty years that Lorne Michaels has been at the helm of Saturday Night Live, he has become a revered and inimitable presence in the entertainment world. He’s a tastemaker, a mogul, a withholding father figure, a genius spotter of talent, a shrewd businessman, a name-dropper, a raconteur, the inspiration for Dr. Evil, the winner of more than a hundred Emmys—and, essentially, a mystery. Generations of writers and performers have spent their lives trying to figure him out, by turns demonizing and lionizing him. He’s 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' (Tracy Morgan), the 'great and powerful Oz' (Kate McKinnon), 'some kind of very distant, strange comedy god' (Bob Odenkirk). Lorne will introduce you to him, in full, for the first time. With unprecedented access to Michaels and the entire SNL apparatus, Susan Morrison takes readers behind the curtain for the lively, up-and-down, definitive story of how Michaels created and maintained the institution that changed comedy forever. Drawn from hundreds of interviews—with Michaels, his friends, and SNL’s iconic stars and writers, from Will Ferrell to Tina Fey to John Mulaney to Chris Rock to Dan Aykroyd—Lorne is a deeply reported, wildly entertaining account of a man singularly obsessed with the show that would define his life and have a profound impact on American culture." --publisher's website.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Michaels, Lorne, 1944-
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| Subject |
Saturday night live (Television program)
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Motion picture producers and directors United States Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Television producers and directors United States Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Television writers United States Biography.
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