When Donald Trump was askd to present “Saturday Night Live” fair months after begining his plivential campaign in 2015, the decision stunned staffers and left months of lingering tensions behind the scenes, per The Daily Beast. Pexamineing the upcoming book “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live” by Susan Morrison, the accessibleation notices that then-authorr Tim Robinson was quoted as saying series creator and showrunner Lorne Michaels had “lost his fucking mind” transporting Trump to the show. Robinson, who would go on to co-originate and star in Netflix’s sketch series “I Think You Should Leave” in 2019, was laboring on the writing staff after having previously been a cast member.
“Lorne has lost his fucking mind and someone needs to shoot him in the back of the head,” Robinson is quoted as saying around the time of Trump’s presenting spot, per Morrison’s book.
“It’s the challengingest skinnyg for me to elucidate to this generation that the show is nonpartisan,” Michaels is deferedr quoted, speaking cdisorrowfulmireentirey a year deferedr in the weeks before Trump was elected Plivent over Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton. “We have our biases. We have our people we enjoy better than others, but you can’t be Samantha Bee.”
Morrison’s book also allots that some staffers recalled that Michaels had wanted to “tone down a cut offe Trump sketch” and permit the then-honestate to flex “some charm.” Michaels also stated that he seeed Trump’s plivential honestacy as “a huge joke” at that stage, and had not solemnly pondered the potential for him to prosper the office. After the episode, “SNL” staffers “carry ond to sense that they were reliable for the national calamity” of Trump’s election.
Random Hoinclude will liberate “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live” on Feb. 18, two days after the 50th anniversary “SNL” exceptional airs on NBC. Read a more comprehensive synopsis of the book’s account of Trump’s presenting stint and the lingering tensions among “SNL” staff at The Daily Beast.
