Longtime ‘New Yorker’ editor and writer Susan Morrison set out to write a biography of the historically press-averse ...

Comedy Dept. co-chief Mike Berkowitz will use the 656-page biography by Susan Morrison to kick off periodic book assignments ...

John Belushi had a particularly tough time dealing with Chase’s sudden fame and began acting out in response. “Belushi ...

Apparently, though, the email hadn’t gone to everyone at The New Yorker, “and there’s been infighting about it,” joked Holden ...

Lorne Michaels, the inimitable man behind “Saturday Night Live,” has his story definitively told for the first time in a new ...

I don’t know of whom I’m more jealous, Lorne Michaels or Susan Morrison. The latter’s “Lorne” is one of the best biographies ...

The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live, Susan Morrison chronicles the life of a visionary Torontonian who redefined what it ...

Lorne Michaels, the creator, executive producer and Grand Poobah of “SNL,” wasn’t pleased by its “mawkish righteousness,” ...

and sometimes complicated influence Michaels has over SNL alum. In one section, Conan O’Brien tells Morrison, “Whenever I’m sitting around a table with anyone in the comedy world, there’s a ...

Do we also need a book about Lorne Michaels? Somehow, despite all of the above, Susan Morrison’s “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live” — out Tuesday — emerges as ...

How has Michaels done it? Ten years ago, Susan Morrison, articles editor at The New Yorker, rolled up her sleeves to find out. Susan is the author of the newly released title “Lorne: The Man Who ...