Billy Crystal in 1979 Eric Charbonneau/Sony Pictures via Getty Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan at TIFF in 2024 Fred Hermansky/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Gett Lorne Michaels in 1979 ...

Ultimately, Crystal was not able to get his sketch down to the runtime Lorne Michaels ... Yes, Billy Crystal was cut for time on the first episode of SNL because he couldn’t shorten his piece.

Lorne Michael's biographer Susan Morrison revealed the 'Saturday Night Live' boss would ban Chris Farley from the show for weeks at a time to help him get over his substance abuse.

Seth Meyers fondly recalls how 'Saturday Night Live' producer Lorne Michaels was worried about being canceled after saying he 'loved' him in a profile of the comedian.

New Lorne Michaels biography debuts after ‘SNL50’—Read it for $1 By . Angela Tricarico. Published Feb. 18, 2025, 5:08 p.m. ET. New York Post Composite ...

Nicholas Podany Watched ‘When Harry Met Sally’ for First Time Before ‘Saturday Night’ Audition for Billy Crystal. Podany appears in in Jason Reitman's movie that follows Lorne Michaels and ...

Michaels fired everyone from Season 10 (stunningly, the likes of Billy Crystal, Martin Short and Christopher Guest) and brought in an entirely new cast including Anthony Michael Hall, Randy Quaid ...

In a career that began with the lauded satire Thank You For Smoking and has drawn four Oscar noms for films that include Juno and Up in the Air, Jason Reitman managed the neat trick by creating ...

Was Billy Crystal cut from the premiere after refusing to trim his act after making a pact ... Did Lorne Michaels wander over to a bar while covered in blood and hire comedy writer Alan Zweibel on ...

Spies said Gaga attended “SNL” creator Lorne Michaels’ private bash following the starry Radio City Music Hall ... J.J. Abrams, Edward Norton, Paul Rudd, Emily Ratajkowski, Billy Crystal, ...

After Billy Crystal being cut from SNL was shown in Saturday Night, ... And I met this young producer named Lorne Michaels, told me about this show, and loved what I did, ...

"[He was] the last person we expected to want to hold onto a memory of that night," director Jason Reitman tells EW.