Live From New York, It’s Lorne Michaels Live From New York, It’s Lorne Michaels
The New York Times
The man who made “Saturday Night Live” reflects on its legacy.
Is it possible that Lorne Michaels is Lorne-ed out?
Even for a man who enjoys being famous, all the hoopla surrounding the 50th anniversary of “Saturday Night Live,” all the extra attention it has brought him, has been a bit much.
“I say this not with any sense of modesty — I was famous enough,” Michaels said recently at Orso, one of his favorite New York haunts. Someone who knew him once sardonically suggested Michaels would like to have “LEGENDARY” stitched into his underwear. And he is, after all, known in some circles by one name, like Beyoncé, Cher, Ichiro. But Michaels demurs.
“Everybody who had to know me, knew me,” he said. “I wasn’t in the public eye. But now, walking over here, a young comedian came up and said, ‘How would I audition?’”
I said I would have loved to have seen that encounter.
“You would not love that,” he said in his bone-dry voice and signature cadence.
