Here’s how it works. I had certainly heard that Dr. Evil had been inspired by Lorne Michaels before. However, a new piece of information that did surprise me is that I had always assumed that ...

Try telling the story of American comedy without mentioning Saturday Night Live, and see how far you get. For half a century, the sketch show has been a cultural fixture, with countless cast members ...

predating Mike Myers’ Dr. Evil by a year. According to the Kids in the Hall, this comedic dig wasn’t intended to be malicious, it was included because “Mark did a good Lorne Michaels.” ...

But while Austin owes his existence to classic British spies, Dr. Evil owes his existence to a much more real source: Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels. Visually, Dr. Evil is clearly an ...

Publisher’s Description: Over the fifty years that Lorne Michaels has been at the ... the inspiration for Dr. Evil, the winner of more than a hundred Emmys—and, essentially, a mystery.

“I don’t like to have Dr. King on the road at night,” Vivian ... Here’s some of what has happened since they began. Profiles Lorne Michaels Is the Real Star of “Saturday Night Live ...

Still, despite being a well-known name-dropper, he didn’t get where he is today by kowtowing to celebrity at every ...

The ringmaster of Saturday Night Live is 80 years old. What happens to the show, not to mention American comedy, when he ...

Lorne Michaels, the creator of “Saturday Night Live,” has donated his archives to the Harry Ransom Center at University of Texas, including hundreds of boxes of material relating to the show ...

"To some, Michaels will bark, 'Don’t f--- it up,'" Susan Morrison writes in Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live, according to an excerpt in The New Yorker. David Spade Says It ...

If you’re one of those people railing against America’s gerontocracy and think Lorne Michaels should step aside and let fresh young blood run Saturday Night Live, well, Bob Odenkirk once ...

He’s ruled with absolute power for five decades, forever adding to his list of oracular pronouncements—about producing TV, ...