[CaptainYooh]

The article I had mentioned describes Lorne’s normal week day-by-day. He is ultimately responsible for approving a host and securing difficult to get hosts/musical guests. But his main job is to cut sketches on Friday and Saturday after a test run. He stands under the bleachers and watches viewers reactions, then makes final cuts for the live show. He tries balancing physical comedy with intellectual comedy and political humour to ensure he gets a “Mars bar with just the right amount of ingredients, because everyone can live with a Mars bar” (his favourite analogy). Most cast members say that nobody can “see funny” better than Lorne. But many SNL writers think that it’s become Lorne’s brand of funny only. Everyone’s wrong somewhere, of course. So, the usual corporate inner politics…

SNL spends $20M on each episode and loses money each week. It’s very problematic. Arguably, Lorne is a bad business manager, but a great brand manager. Two of his children are working in the industry in senior positions and there are rumours of him wanting to keep SNL “in the family”.