{"id":590097,"date":"2026-04-17T16:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/590097\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T16:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:54:08","slug":"lorne-offers-some-surprising-new-angles-on-lorne-michaels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/590097\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Lorne&#8217; Offers Some Surprising New Angles on Lorne Michaels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Mostly, though, the people who have worked for him over the years remain loyal and appreciative. If he&#8217;s sometimes been tough on them, he has also launched careers. He has also, of course, gotten very rich himself off Saturday Night Live, as well as the movies he\u2019s produced, like <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6554719\/mean-girls-review\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mean Girls<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/4669066\/waynes-world-25-anniversary-catchphrases-video\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wayne\u2019s World<\/a>. But you can\u2019t begrudge him. At one point in Lorne, he mentions a random thought that occurred to him when he was a kid: \u201cIf I went to prison, I\u2019d get to read a lot.\u201d He was kind of wrong\u2014prison isn\u2019t fun\u2014but also right, just as he was right about those performers dressed in bee costumes. If Lorne is nothing else, it\u2019s a portrait of a guy who knows when to zig and when to zag. His moves may sometimes seem counterintuitive\u2014but then, that\u2019s how a television show, risky from the get-go, survives for 50 years and counting, through unwatchable seasons and great ones. The executives who expressed dismay over a silly but brilliant bee sketch are long gone. But Michaels endures, not only having the last laugh, but passing it along to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mostly, though, the people who have worked for him over the years remain loyal and appreciative. If he&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[48786,88,206,899],"class_list":{"0":"post-590097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-culturepod","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-review"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}