Susan Morrison - Author of LORNE: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live
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Dana Carvey, David Spade, & Audacy
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🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Dana, today we have Susan Morrison, a writer. We don't always have writers. We have S&L |
| 0:06.0 | but she's a writer of SNL. Yes, yes. You wrote a big fat book about Lorne. And it's the 50th |
| 0:13.7 | anniversary of S&L. It's a good time to have it out. Lorne, the man who invented S&L. |
| 0:21.5 | And she covers a lot. She's... Lauren, the man who invented S&L. Mm-hmm. |
| 0:22.4 | And she covers a lot. |
| 0:24.8 | She's telling things to you, listeners, that even we don't know. |
| 0:29.4 | You're going to hear something that's a little shocking, a little surprising. |
| 0:32.8 | How's that for a tease? |
| 0:33.8 | But if we do a deep dive, the man, the moment, Lauren Michaels, based on the book and what |
| 0:40.8 | she learned by interviewing, I got interviewed. I don't, my quotes are probably silly. I got |
| 0:45.5 | interviewed, yeah. Everyone got interviewed, everyone got interviewed, everyone talked, and it's just |
| 0:50.0 | sort of a comprehensive look at Lauren 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 |
| 0:59.6 | Montvoste, Se, Sean. Oh yeah. And they got, you know, Tina Faye and Steve Martin and John |
| 1:07.6 | Malaney. There's all these quotes up front and every way you turn, you know, they're |
| 1:11.6 | talking about. So very in-depth, took years to put this together. |
| 1:16.0 | Years to put it together. And it was very interesting talk. We went on and on. So here she is, |
| 1:22.3 | and you're going to learn a lot. Who's in Morrison? |
| 1:28.9 | And I sort of forgot, I had forgotten until recently the wonderful accent thing that everybody |
| 1:35.3 | says, the Eagles. |
| 1:36.4 | Oh, the Eagles. |
| 1:37.5 | That's right. |
| 1:38.1 | That is. |
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