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"Saturday Night Live" mastermind Lorne Michaels and actress-singer Bette Midler. Five months after they were postponed because of the coronavirus, the annual Kennedy Center Honors are coming back ...
Afterward, guests departed for a party at the Reach, a 2019 addition spearheaded by the Kennedy Center’s former president ...
After graduating with honors from the University of Texas at Austin (Hook 'em, Horns!), Lauren wrote about film, television, awards season, music, and more for the likes of The Hollywood Reporter ...
The comedian told The Daily Show‘s Desi Lydic that he’s still begging SNL boss Lorne Michaels to reverse course on picking him for the role. “Lorne asked me and I said, ‘Please ...
“Everyone in America is going to be like, ‘This Asian guy is playing that guy?’” the comedian said he thought when the show’s creator asked him to portray the vice president. By McKinley ...
The Saturday Night Live star recalled asking Lorne Michaels “please, please, please don’t make me do this” after he was cast in the “challenging” role the vice president on the long ...
“I remember calling or emailing Lorne and saying, ‘Let me know if he’s funny because we have a part coming up on ’30 Rock’ that would be great for him,’” Fey said. By Lexy Perez ...
Fey and Hamm recently sat down for a one-on-one for Interview Magazine, and during their conversation, Fey revealed that she called “Saturday Night Live” creator Lorne Michaels to ask if she ...
During a recent appearance on “The Daily Show,” Yang, who first portrayed the vice president in an October 2024 episode, said that he has begged “SNL” creator Lorne Michaels to have ...
“First of all — God’s honest truth, I really do my best with him, but every time I have to play him, I go to Lorne and I say, ‘You can do a buyback. You don’t have to stick with m ...
"But if somebody else wrote it for me, I would oddly hold back a little bit." That's when SNL boss Lorne Michaels stepped in. "So Lorne gave me a little talking-to after my third year, and kinda ...
Original “SNL” creator Lorne Michaels is set to executive produce this new version while, of course, maintaining his same role stateside. “For over 50 years Saturday Night Live has held a ...