Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live - Susan Morrison

18/02/2025 17h 0min
Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live - Susan Morrison

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Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night LiveAuthor: Susan MorrisonNarrator: TBDFormat: UnabridgedLength: 17:00:00Language: EnglishRelease date: 02-18-2025Publisher: Random House (Audio)Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment, General ComedySummary:A definitive biography of Lorne Michaels, the man behind America’s most beloved comedy show
 
Over the fifty years that Lorne Michaels has been at the helm of Saturday Night Live, he has become a revered, inimitable, and bewildering presence in the entertainment world. He’s a tastemaker, a mogul, a withholding father figure, a genius spotter of talent, a shrewd businessman, a name-dropper, a raconteur, the inspiration for Dr. Evil, the winner of more than a hundred Emmys—and, essentially, a mystery. Generations of writers and performers have spent their lives trying to figure him out, by turns demonizing and lionizing him. He’s “Obi-Wan Kenobi” (Tracy Morgan), the “great and powerful Oz” (Kate McKinnon), or “some kind of very distant, strange comedy god” (Bob Odenkirk).
 
Lorne will introduce you to him, in full, for the first time. With unprecedented access to Michaels and the entire SNL apparatus, Susan Morrison takes readers behind the curtain for the lively, up-and-down, definitive story of how Michaels created and maintained the institution that changed comedy forever.
 
Drawn from hundreds of interviews—with Michaels, his friends, and SNL’s iconic stars and writers, from Will Ferrell to Tina Fey to John Mulaney to Chris Rock to Dan Aykroyd—Lorne is a deeply reported, wildly entertaining account of a man singularly obsessed with the show that would define his life—and have a profound impact on American culture.

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