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Susan Morrison - Author of LORNE: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live
19 Feb 2025
Hours of conversations with SNL icons, the best Lorneisms, and working for Downey with Susan Morrison, author of LORNE: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Dana, today we have Susan Morrison, a writer. We don't always have writers. We have SNL writers, but she's a writer of SNL. Yes, yes.
She wrote a big fat book about Lorne. And it's the 50th anniversary of SNL. It's a good time to have it out. Lorne, the man who invented SNL.
And she covers a lot. She's telling things to you, listeners, that even we don't know.
You're going to hear something that's a little shocking, a little surprising. How's that for a tease? But if we do a deep dive... The man, the moment, Lorne Michaels, based on the book and what she learned by interviewing. I got interviewed. My quotes are probably silly. I got interviewed, yeah. Got interviewed. Everyone got interviewed. Everyone talked.
And it's just sort of a comprehensive look at Lorne Michaels through his childhood, all the way through his travails, seasons that were rougher than others, and on and on. So it's a very interesting conversation.
oh yeah and they got you know tina fey and steve martin and john mulaney there's all these quotes up front and everywhere you turn you know they're talking about so very in-depth took years to put this together years to put it together and it was very interesting talk we went on and on so uh yeah here she is and you're gonna learn a lot who's in morrison
And I sort of forgot, I had forgotten until recently the wonderful accent thing that everybody says, the eagles.
Oh, the eagles. That's right. The eagles. So you claim to have a book.
I do. I actually can't even show it to you. It's coming out.
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