Saturday Night Live kicked off its fourth season in 1978 with one of the show's most unconventional emcees to date, the ...

Lorne Michaels testified as a character witness on Keith Richards' behalf as the Stones guitarist faced serious drug charges ...

Richards most recently made an appearance at the sketch show's 50th anniversary special Lorne Michaels once helped keep Keith ...

Richards posted bond but a judge ordered him to remain in Canada until his trial. “We think we can get Anita [Pallenberg] off with a fine and a slap on the wrist, but the thing with Keith is ...

Lorne Michaels once saved Keith Richards from receiving a life sentence in Canadian prison, and no, that's not a scrapped 'SNL' skit.

At the center of all the televised festivities for the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live is Lorne Michaels, the ...

Read an exclusive excerpt from Lorne: The Man Who ... he’d asked Michaels to come to Toronto to testify as a character witness in Keith Richards’s heroin trial. The year before, Canadian ...

(Famously, one of his other character witnesses that day was a young blind fan named Rita, whom Richards heralded in his 2010 memoir, Life.) "SNL" Boss Lorne Michaels Said That He Told Taylor ...

Read an exclusive excerpt from "Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live" by Susan Morrison.