Lorne Michaels Biographer’s Reply-All Email Is an All Star Affair
As Charlotte Klein writes, Tina Fey couldn’t resist chiming in after aging media luminaries like Graydon Carter replied all to Susan Morrison’s emailed book event invite, inviting further responses from the likes of Colin Jost, Jon Hamm, and others.
Seth Meyers and Cue Card Wally Get Into It, and a Fan Reaps the Rewards
One enterprising fan took home the perfect souvenir from last night’s Late Night with Seth Meyers (context here).
Lorne Michaels: ‘I Was Famous Enough’
The star maker has become a star himself in the leadup to SNL50, and apparently he’s not thrilled about it. “Everybody who had to know me, knew me,” he tells Maureen Dowd in a new New York Times profile.
Robert Smigel Resurfaces Conan O’Brien-Written SNL Commercial Parody
“While he wrote bigger hits than ‘Long White Beard,’ I’m posting it because it’s ridiculous and funny and as Conan-y as it gets.” [Robert Smigel on Threads]
SNL‘s First Openly Gay Castmember Recalls ‘White Collar Homophobia’ at Show
“Nobody went by my office and yelled, ‘F*g,'” Terry Sweeney tells Vulture. “Instead, it was, ‘I don’t really have any ideas for you. We need a mailman in the sketch; we don’t need a gay mailman.'” [via TV Tattle]