But the ending was painfully familiar. On December 18, 1997, just two months after hosting SNL, Chris Farley died of an ...

A longtime member of the Saturday Night Live team is retiring after 50 years on the job. Stephen “Demo” DeMaria, SNL’s ...

Murray still holds a grudge against Woodward for ‘Wired,” the controversial 1984 biography that the Washington Post ...

Nicole Stiegelbauer is his boss on the show and told the publication her grandfather initially hired DeMaria. She said she ...

These five are just some of the famous folk who were turned away by Lorne Michaels and his crew. Sitcom stars, late-night hosts, and box office toppers, all of them were shown the door and, in some ...

T he ever-iconic Saturday Night Live is about to conclude its landmark 50th season. Created by Lorne Michaels, the late-night ...

Stephen “Demo” DeMaria has been building sets for “Saturday Night Live” since before the show even aired — he helped build ...

Michaels’ biographer Susan Morrison, author of Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live, revealed during a recent appearance on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast that John Belushi ...

Farley starred on “SNL” from 1990 to 1995. He died of a drug overdose (cocaine and morphine) in 1997, just like Belushi. In her book that came out in Feb., Morrison claimed that Farley was once ...

The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live,' recalls how the 'SNL' creator would try to help the late castmember by sending him ...