Well, one thing's for certain: Whoever Lorne hires will meet his definition of "funny," which means it won't meet anyone else's definition.
--Dave Sikula On Sunday, June 15, 2014 6:23:17 PM UTC-7, Tom Wolper wrote: > > I saw a story at Vanity Fair's website, which was just a link to this > interview at Deadline > <http://www.deadline.com/2014/06/lorne-michaels-exclusive-interview-emmys-2014-saturday-night-live-late-night-tv/> > > and some breathless commentary. In the interview Lorne talked a little > about this history and the NBC late night shows as well as SNL. Here's an > excerpt about the hard season: > > *DEADLINE: You’re coming off a rebuilding season at *SNL*. How > challenging was it?* > *MICHAELS:* We lost four leading men at the end of last season, Fred and > Bill and Andy and Jason, all of whom were very seasoned, very strong cast. > We lost Kristin the year before. All have been here a long time, and you > get used to how good people are. Losing the fifth leading man in Seth (in > early February) was a hard thing, in the middle of a season, because > there’s only one other time in the 39 years that we ever changed Update in > the middle of a season, and that was Norm Macdonald to Colin Quinn. And > that was more because a whole other set of reasons, but I think that that > made it a much harder thing, in addition to having to focus on launching > Jimmy and launching Seth. But *SNL*, we put a lot of pressure, a lot of > new people. It was a hard season. > > *DEADLINE: Are you considering any casting changes heading into next > season?* > > *MICHAELS:* Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We’re still in the middle of > rebuilding. So, there will be changes this year. > > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
