Lorne “lost his thoughts”

The decision shocked staff and wasted a few days in The Daily Beast when Donald Trump was invited to host Saturday Night Live a few months after the presidential election in 2015 Months of tension. Susan Morrison previews the upcoming book Lorne: The Man Inventing Saturday Night Live, which notes that then-writer Tim Robinson was cited as a series Creator and performer Lorne Michaels “lost his fucking mind” and brought Trump into the show. Robinson will continue to co-create and star in Netflix's sketch series “I Think You Should Leave,” who has been working on writing since he was an actor.

“Lorne lost his mind and someone needed to shoot him in the back of his head,” Robinson wrote in Morrison's book. (The anecdote is not Robinson’s direct offer to the author, but another person’s recollection of Robinson’s reaction.

Michaels later quoted Michaels: “For me, this is the hardest thing I can explain, this is my performance that is nonpartisan.” About a year later, in Trump's election Weeks later for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. “We have bias. Our people like our people more than others, but you can't be Samantha Bee.”

Morrison's book also shared that some staff members recalled that Michaels wanted to “turn down Trump's sketches” and allow the candidates at the time to play “some charm.” Michaels was also recalled saying he thought Trump had chosen Trump's presidential candidate “a big joke” at that stage and hadn't seriously considered his potential to win the office. After the plot, the “SNL” staff “continue to feel that they are responsible for the national disaster of Trump's election.”

In 2021, “SNL” created more internal tensions by inviting Elon Musk to receive. The billionaire has now become Trump's confidante. Last year, actor Chloe Fineman shared that Musk cried during the week of the show: “I just saw some news articles about Elon Musk, like Butt-Hurt and him about 'SNL' Impression. …I’m going to finally come out and say I’m the actor who cries. He’s the master who makes someone cry. Maybe there’s something else.”

Random House will release “Lorne: The Invention of the People Who Live Saturday Night” on February 18, two days after NBC’s 50th anniversary “SNL” special air conditioner. Read the book’s narrative, which covers Trump’s host tenure and tensions among the “SNL” employees in The Daily Beast.