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Original ‘SNL’ Employee Retires After 50 Years
A longtime member of the Saturday Night Live team is retiring after 50 years on the job. Stephen “Demo” DeMaria, SNL’s ...
After Working With John Belushi, Lorne Michaels Used To 'Ban' Chris Farley From SNL Amidst Drug Addiction: 'Obviously, It Didn't Do It For Him'
But the ending was painfully familiar. On December 18, 1997, just two months after hosting SNL, Chris Farley died of an ...
Bill Murray and Bob Woodward still beefing over John Belushi book
Murray still holds a grudge against Woodward for ‘Wired,” the controversial 1984 biography that the Washington Post ...
Stephen ‘Demo’ DeMaria, a set builder for ‘SNL’ for 50 years, is hanging up his hammer
Nicole Stiegelbauer is his boss on the show and told the publication her grandfather initially hired DeMaria. She said she ...
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‘SNL’ Boss Lorne Michaels Used To “Ban” Chris Farley “For Weeks At A Time” As Farley Struggled With Drug Addiction
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 ...
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Lorne Michaels reportedly used to ‘ban’ Chris Farley from shoots during his addiction days
During a recent appearance on Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, biographer Susan Morrison looked back at how the head of ...
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'Boss of the Carpenters' retires this weekend after 50 years building sets for SNL
Stephen “Demo” DeMaria has been building sets for “Saturday Night Live” since before the show even aired — he helped build ...
Lorne Michaels banned Chris Farley from ‘SNL’ for weeks due to his ‘addiction issues,’ author claims
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 ...
Why Lorne Michaels Would Allegedly Ban Chris Farley From ‘SNL’ for “Weeks at a Time”
The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live,' recalls how the 'SNL' creator would try to help the late castmember by sending him ...