Many Jewish comedy greats got their start in the once-scrappy comedy sketch show, which celebrates its golden anniversary this weekend.

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 ...

Venerable sketch comedy series "Saturday Night Live" is marking its 50th season with a live, three-hour prime-time special on Feb. 16 ( oddly, it's on a Sunday).

For a biography of a man whose business is comedy, Susan Morrison’s Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live is ...

But it was his inspired collaboration with legendary castmate John Belushi as fictional musical siblings the Blues Brothers ...

Lorne Michaels' biographer, Susan Morrison, reveals how she convinced the "Saturday Night Live' chief to discuss his ...

As original comedy movies become harder to sell, it might be time to mine "SNL" I.P. with the hope of finding another "Blues ...

SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night” delves into cast auditions, “More Cowbell,” and a fateful season in which Lorne Michaels almost ...

Saturday Night might have gotten a lot of things right about the first SNL airing, but they messed up one bit about Lorne Michaels and Weekend Update.

Live” is having a 50th anniversary, and things are happening. Jason Reitman’s backstage dramedy “Saturday Night,” released ...