Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live
Weirdly barren of laughs. Across 600 extremely interesting pages, I LOLed exactly once ... Fascinating ... But somehow no one is quite as fascinating as Michaels himself.
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An encyclopedic doorstop ... A compendium richer than even Mr. Michaels’s most fervent admirers could ask for. That can be a problem for readers insufficiently smitten by the Michaels mystique or the SNL brand of topical humor.
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Morrison...has built Michaels the kind of biographical monument usually consecrated to founding fathers, canonical authors and world-historical scientific geniuses. A fair question might be whether the progenitor and supervisor of a long-running sketch-comedy show...merits such treatment ... That the answer turns out to be yes is largely a tribute to Morrison’s journalistic chops. Briskly written and solidly sourced, Lorne is in essence a nearly 650-page magazine profile — something I mean almost entirely as praise.
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