The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •The definitive biography of Lorne Michaels, the man behind America’smost beloved comedy show“Th kind of biographical monument usually consecrated to founding fathers, canonical authors and world-historical scientific geniuses.”#8212The New York Times (Editors’Choice)“Reders are treated to the Holy Grail for any journalist hoping to crack the show: a warts-and-all week in the life of SNL, where Morrison gets to see the real process of putting the thing together.”#8212VarietyOver 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’sa 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—an, 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“Ob-Wan Kenobi”(Tracy Morgan), the “grat and powerful Oz”(Kate McKinnon), “soe 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—wih Michaels, his friends, and SNL’siconic stars and writers, from Will Ferrell to Tina Fey to John Mulaney to Chris Rock to Dan Aykroyd—Lone 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.