Lorne Michaels, the creator of the long-running sketch comedy television show “Saturday Night Live,” has donated his career archive to the Harry Ransom…
SNL 50th anniversary special to air live on Feb. 16; HRC exhibition to open this September and run until March 15, 2026Lorne 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 Lorne Michaels Collection includes behind-the-scenes rehearsal notes, scripts and photographs of iconic characters and sketches from a show that launched the careers of comedians Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and others. It also includes some of 80-year-old Michaels' personal correspondence.The Harry Ransom Center is preparing the archive for exhibition this fall.
Its literary archive includes the collections of Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee, Pulitzer Prize winners David Mamet and Norman Mailer, actor Robert DeNiro, the television drama “Mad Men” and the “Gone With the Wind” collection of Hollywood producer David O. Selznick. The Michaels collection documents his career in television from his earliest writing for “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” and “The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show,” but the bulk of it is related to SNL.” to open in September with sketch drafts, correspondence, video, photos and artifacts that detail show production and highlight SNL's role as a comedic window into, and influence on, culture and politics.
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