"SNL" continues because of Lorne Michaels — but it's much bigger ... This turned out to be true, as only Jon Lovitz, Nora Dunn, Dennis Miller, and A. Whitney Brown would come back for the ...

As SNL turns 50, Bowen Yang, Terry Sweeney, Paula Pell and other gay writers and performers look back at the show’s LGBTQ history.

You had Nora Dunn walking off the show when Andrew ... In one of the best SNL McDonald’s sketches ever… Lorne’s idea is kind of speaking truth to power and poking at whoever is in charge.

In a 2015 interview with Salon, Dunn said she chose to walk out because she wasn't confident SNL's writing staff could "handle" Clay's raunchy humor without appearing to condone it. "Lorne said ...

And when paired with giddy castmate Jane Hooks, Dunn (literally ... inextricably linked with "SNL." The dependable and earnest comedian was just the man creator Lorne Michaels needed to call ...

Dunn said she chose to walk out because she wasn’t confident SNL‘s writing staff could “handle” Clay’s raunchy humor without appearing to condone it. “Lorne said, ‘Andrew Dice Clay ...

Saturday Night Live has to be the most “Look ... For many, getting hired by Lorne Michaels wasn’t the moment, but hearing their name spoken aloud by announcer Don Pardo was.

In 1975, Lorne Michaels’s brash experiment ... a particular era’s predilections and blind spots. SNL yarns are no exception: Nora Dunn was pronounced “difficult” for refusing to perform ...

(No. 2) “TV in 1975 was still lagging about 20 years behind the rest of the culture,” said Susan Morrison, an editor at the New Yorker and author of “Lorne,” a new biography of “SNL ...