Lorne Michaels Talks Jimmy Fallon, Conan O’Brien and His Eddie Murphy Mistake. As part of HRTS' newsmaker luncheon series, Martin Short peppered the "Saturday Night Live" producer about the ...

When Eddie Murphy makes his long-awaited “SNL” return on Saturday, ... Lorne Michaels left “SNL” following disputes with network executives. Although he eventually returned in 1985, ...

It is not too much to say that Eddie Murphy, more or less single-handedly, ... There are other reasons for the long estrangement. Murphy is not in the Lorne Michaels universe of stars.

Eddie Murphy has finally won an Emmy, ... for his Emmy-winning episode of the late-night TV show in December — laughed and thanked “SNL” creator Lorne Michaels during a short videotaped ...

When Eddie Murphy first appeared on “Saturday Night Live” in November 1980, the show was on the brink of extinction. Creator Lorne Michaels had departed before the sixth season, most of the ...

Lorne Michaels, the creator of the long-running sketch comedy television show “Saturday Night Live” has donated his career archive to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, the ...

Eddie Murphy's enduring mark on 'SNL,' the show he helped save from the brink. In June of 1982, NBC held a lunch in Los Angeles to publicize its then 6-year-old series, "Saturday Night Live ...

When Eddie Murphy makes his long-awaited “SNL” return on Saturday, ... For a brief period in the early 1980s, Lorne Michaels left “SNL” following disputes with network executives.

In June of 1982, NBC held a lunch in Los Angeles to publicize its then 6-year-old series, "Saturday Night Live," which had all but died two years earlier, when the producer chosen to succeed ...