#lorne michaels

[davidhudson]

Happy 80th, Lorne Michaels.

With George Harrison and Paul Simon on Saturday Night Live in 1976.

[elposting]

GUYS IM SEEING ANDREW RANNELLS AND LIN MANUEL MIRANDA AND AIDY BRYANT LIVE IN JANUARY AAAAAAAAAAAA

[adaptationsdaily]

Coneheads (1993) Dir: Steve Barron

[coeurdeverre82]

tomorrow show 1975

[oldshowbiz]

SCTV cast member Dave Thomas recalls:

"When Chevy Chase left the original SNL cast, Joe [Flaherty], John [Candy] and I auditioned for the open slot.

"Lorne came into town acting like a little prince. It was a painful audition. We did what was probably the worst improv of our lives. Bill Murray got the part.

"Afterward, Lorne told John Candy not to give up his day job. It was a joke, but John never forgot that.

"By SCTV’s second season, the sense of competition with SNL had disappeared because they’d become so big. We were only getting smaller—stations started dropping us. People were discouraged, but we kept filming. Things turned around once we made it to American networks.”

[sithlordpadawan]

saturday night was a very interesting watch beginning to end. a lot of the feedback on it (at least from what i’ve seen) says it wishes it saw more of the individual cast members (mainly about gilda radner and john belushi) more fleshed out. i get where that’s coming from, but at the same time, the goal of the movie was to encapsulate the feeling of the panic right before the show first happened. even though characters like chevy chase, dan aykroyd, rosie shuster and lorne michaels were the most focused on throughout the movie, you could still get a sense of how everyone got along and how it worked behind the scenes. i watched the real first episode of snl after watching the movie, and they did a fantastic job of casting people with similar energies to the original cast members.

i would see it again, and would recommend others to see it as well. it’s a solid biopic and i loved garret morris (played by lamorne morris) at the end!

10/10 loved it loved it loved it

[ninetyminutes]

“Lorne was especially smitten by Chevy. When Rosie Shuster was still in Los Angeles and Lorne would call, he'd talk about Chevy like a parent whose child had just reached the adorable toddler stage. "Oh, Chevy did the cutest thing today," he'd chuckle. Lorne and Chevy became inseparable. They dressed alike (Chevy quickly picked up Lorne's taste for Hawaiian shirts), commiserated with each other about their troubles with their mates (Chevy's finacée was in Los Angeles and not happy he was in New York), and shared similar senses of irony and the absurd.”

[perfect-ly-island-y]

(via @mrgrahamkay on insta story)

[sydcarmyfan]

Congratulations Ayo! Dear SNL, I have an idea…

[the-cheezit-files]

just sayin

[bertiewoosterz]

The uk aren’t getting the Saturday night movie until 2025 what if I died mr reitman

[mrs-jake-blues]

Rest in Peace, Shelley ❤️

[elposting]

i’m at 6k words on my mcpricely snl au one shot this is the longest one shot i’ve ever written lmao

[abs0luteb4stard]

W a t c h i n g

I think there's a life lesson for people to learn here. I think it's a lesson of kindness and friendship. More so, to be kind to people who's lives you might not understand, but to be kind to them. Be humane. Let people live their lives on their own terms.

Just shake someone's hand like you would anyone. Say hello or good afternoon. They're a human being like you. They have feelings and deserve to live any life they feel.

BE KIND. That's all it takes.

[male1971]

In 1977, Shelley Duvall hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live.

[oldshowbiz]

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