that was susan morrison, the articles editor at the new yorker. the lucky ones who has it now? susan, i love it beyond description. the writing is so beautiful. it's so wonderful. it's your first book. and you know, we're always hoping our friends with first books deliver. this is. and you've been on this for years. >> a decade? >> yeah. ten years. >> yeah. thank you for that. >> nice introduction. this is the first time i've thought about the book as. workplace comedy. but you're absolutely right. that's what it is. it's the office. >> in hardcover. >> and i have to say, you know, i knew you were working on it for about ten years, and i would run into you over at snl at different times. and i knew you start to get concerned for a book author who's who's in or around year five or so, you know, because there's some quicksand there that some people never get out of. and so i wasn't never going to say anything because i'd been very late on on books myself. but here's what i think. i don't know how you could have written this book in less than ten year

susan morrison.ubject. this is short form tv. thank you for this book. thank you very much for joining us tonight. this is really a jewel of a book. i am so glad. >> so much, really fun talking about it. >> thank you very much. we'll be right back. >> i'm sure you're. >> wondering why your mother and i asked you here tonight. it's because it's a buffet of all you can eat. butterfly shrimp and sirloin steak? >> yeah, that's the reason. >> i don't get it. >> do you have any idea how. >> much. (fisher investments) at fisher investments we may look like other money managers, but we're different. (other money manager) you can't be that different. (fisher investments) we are. we have a team of specialists not only in investing, but also in financial and estate planning and more. (other money manager) your clients rely on you for all that? (fisher investments) yes. and as a fiduciary, we always put their interests first. (other money manager) but you still sell commission- based products, right? (fisher inv

the author, susan morrison, on the show last night. and i actually meant to. >> tell you this. last night. >> in our. little chat, because there's a line in this book and i'm going to save you reading the 600 pages to get to this line, because it's the key line for you in the entire book. given that you work in live television, and it was actually something that lauren said to me in the elevator at the in the first year i was doing, when i was complaining to him about how everything i was getting wrong and, you know, the show wasn't ready and i had to go. and he and it was the most important thing i'd ever heard about how to do this kind of tv. and lauren said, well, we don't do the show because we're ready. we do it. >> because it's. >> 1130. and i walked out of the building, and that the size of that thought just kept expanding in my head as a defining principle of what we do here for a living. >> that is, i know for a fact. >> you are never ready. >> and the. >> thing is. >> the thing that gets delivered on tv is the best you can possibly do, since they're going to start it

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susan morrison gets tonight's last word. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. >> tonight, backlash. as opponents of the trump government overhaul take to the streets. the doge team pushes for access to taxpayers personal data as the white house prepares to fire homeland security officials who might not agree with trump's agenda. and a delta. airlines jet crashes and overturns at the toronto airport. the latest as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. >> good evening once again. >> i'm stephanie ruhle. >> it is. >> day. >> 29 of the second trump administration. and on this president's day, americans. >> in cities from coast. >> to coast gathered. >> to protest. >> the trump administration. >> and what it has. >> done over the. last month. some protesters called. >> it the not my presidents. >> day. >> the official white house. >> x account. >> celebrated the federal holiday. >> by posting. >> the mug shot. >> of donald. >> trump. >> the first convicted felon. >> elected president. >> but it is this. >> t

lorne by susan morrison. it's worth reading more than just during the commercial breaks of this show. that is tonight's last word. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. >> tonight we're tracking fast moving developments on everything from another high profile resignation at the department of justice to peace talks with russia that leave out ukraine. then money, power, politics. how a new executive order could impact the banks you do business with. plus the government workers fighting waste, fraud and abuse while actually showing their work. why inspectors general should be protected, not fired. as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening once again i'm stephanie ruhle and it is day 30 of the second trump administration. and from the jump, there has been a firehose of news out of the west wing. but a lot has changed in just the last 24 hours alone. here's the latest. the head of the criminal division of the u.s. attorney's office in washington, d.c, resigned today after refusing

. >> reporter: susan morrison is the author of "lorne."ter: for 50 years now, "saturday night live" has been putting on a show. ♪ it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood ♪ >> reporter: a 90-minute mix of comedy sketches, parodies, and musical acts. each episode headlined by a celebrity host. what did variety shows look like before "saturday night live"? >> they took place on a big wide stage. it was very shiny, very blank. and the content of these variety shows also was kind of a throwback. very hammy, almost vaudevilian, catskill comics doing seltzer-in-the-pants bits. >> reporter: michael worked on several of those shows, including "laugh-in." >> it was really the first variety show that seemed to care about youth culture and being him. but politically that show was relatively toothless. what passed for political humor on "laugh-in" was goldie hawn doing a kind of a dumb blonde bit. >> i don't like it because in the movies he nearly wrecked the empire state building. >> reporter: he learned a different less onon a cornball comedy show h

joining us now the articles editor at the new yorker, susan morrison.e the man who invented saturday night live. and it's great to have you on the show to talk about this. tell us about some of the things we learn in this book, including what is born name is, but also how the book is divided into six parts monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday and saturday. >> lorne was born lorne liebowitz in toronto and made his way to new york after a dozen years bouncing around kind of cruddy variety shows up in la. and after the 40th anniversary ten years ago, i started thinking about how there's no one who has had a bigger impact on what makes americans laugh, what we think is funny over the last four decades. and people don't know anything about him, you know, to the wider comedy world. he is. he's this, this wizard of oz figure, this, this object of obsession that they're all trying to figure out. but i think the general viewer of snl has no idea of this. so in writing this book, i both wanted to tell you his life story and to get close, you know, to watc

susan morrison is here.ted saturday night live, and we were. just discussing the special that took place on sunday night. you've been working on this project for a decade. >> that's right, i have. >> i started in 2015. >> persuaded lorne to. >> get on board. >> the next year. and i interviewed him about 50 times in his office. and everybody in. >> his big world. >> and then i had to sit down and do the hard part of writing it. >> but okay. >> so here's my. question to you, which is in the context of business people, we all talk about him as a great producer and all of that. >> but i. >> think that he is one of the great talent, either talent spotters or talent molders or talent, something he seems to have a sort of very good hand when it comes to. >> finding the right people. >> yes. >> what is that about? >> did he find the right people to find the right people, or was he was he at every whenever a groundling or a second city person came in and did not audition, was was lorne there to decide or did he have