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Seth Meyers says Lorne Michaels worried he'd get canceled for saying he 'loved' him: 'I think you misunderstand'
Seth Meyers fondly recalls how 'Saturday Night Live' producer Lorne Michaels was worried about being canceled after saying he ...
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After Working With John Belushi, Lorne Michaels Used To 'Ban' Chris Farley From SNL Amidst Drug Addiction: 'Obviously, It Didn't Do It For Him'
author of Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live, spoke candidly about how deeply Belushi’s 1982 overdose affected Michaels and, in turn, how that shaped his handling of Farley.
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John Belushi used to commandeer the host's limo at Saturday Night Live
SNL’s enigmatic creator and producer, Lorne Michaels ... between Chase and the rest of the cast continued to mount. John Belushi had a particularly tough time dealing with Chase’s sudden ...
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‘SNL’ Boss Lorne Michaels Used To “Ban” Chris Farley “For Weeks At A Time” As Farley Struggled With Drug Addiction
Michaels’ biographer Susan Morrison, author of Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live, revealed during a recent appearance on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast that John Belushi ...
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Lorne Michaels Once Said “Saturday Night Live”’s Original Cast Members Were All 'Stuck in Adolescence'
In an unaired ’60 Minutes’ clip from 2004, Michaels discussed the show’s original 1975 cast Back in 2004, Lorne Michaels ... Chevy Chase and John Belushi, were all “stuck in adolescence ...
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Dan Aykroyd Reveals How He and John Belushi Changed Lorne Michaels' Mind After He 'Didn't Dig' the Blues Brothers
"I hope people take away the emotion of the love story between John and myself," Aykroyd ... Audible SNL producer Lorne Michaels "didn't dig it," SNL and Blues Brothers saxophonist Lou Marini ...
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Lorne Michaels banned Chris Farley from ‘SNL’ for weeks due to his ‘addiction issues,’ author claims
Susan Morrison, author of the biography “Lorne ... Morrison recalled that Michaels, 80, went into overdrive to help Farley after original cast member John Belushi died of a drug overdose ...
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Looking back at 50 years of "Saturday Night Live"
"It's a sketch, a very unusual sketch, kind of in a minor key, [with] John Belushi as a kind ... Morrison is the author of "Lorne" (that would be Lorne Michaels, the man behind "Saturday Night ...
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The Real Story Behind the Saturday Night Live Movie
Lorne Michaels (Gabriel LaBelle), Gilda Radner (Ella Hunt), John Belushi (Matt Wood) and Dan Aykroyd (Dylan O'Brien) in <i>Saturday Night</i>. Credit - Courtesy of Sony Pictures Entertainment ...
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‘It Wasn’t a Bit’: The Real Story Behind the Blues Brothers
Lorne Michaels saw one of Belushi’s performances ... "SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE -- Episode 6 -- Pictured: Dan Aykroyd as Elwood Blues, John Belushi as Jake Blues of musical guest the Blues Brothers ...
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Lorne Michaels Banned Chris Farley From ‘SNL’ for ‘Weeks at a Time’ to Help Him Get Off ‘the Drinking and the Drugs’: He ‘Clearly Had Addiction Issues’
the author of “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live,” said that Michaels cracked down on the cast’s alcohol and drug use after John Belushi died from an overdose in 1982.