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Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

Susan Morrison - Author of LORNE: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live

Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

Dana Carvey, David Spade, & Audacy

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.711.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Hours of conversations with SNL icons, the best Lorneisms, and working for Downey with Susan Morrison, author of LORNE: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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