Speaker 1: Welcome to the WBZ book Club. I'm Jordan Rich. Been
Speaker 1: a lot of attention lately paid to Saturday Night Live,
Speaker 1: celebrating their fiftieth anniversary on NBC. The driving force behind
Speaker 1: the show was and continues to be, Lauren Michaels, who's
Speaker 1: the subject of the book Lauren The Man who Invented
Speaker 1: Saturday Night by Susan Morrison. It's a brand new biography
Speaker 1: that takes us from Lauren's upbringing in Toronto, raised in
Speaker 1: a Jewish family, to his career as a broadcaster and
Speaker 1: writer for CBC Radio, his transition to Los Angeles, where
Speaker 1: he worked on Laugh In the Burns and Trever Comedy
Speaker 1: Hour and produced a series of specials with Lilly Tomlin.
Speaker 1: This ultimately brought him to the Saturday Night Live experiment,
Speaker 1: one that has paid off big time. The author had
Speaker 1: full access to Lauren and many of the SNL cast
Speaker 1: and crew. Michaels has won more than one hundred Emmys
Speaker 1: and the fact that he's managed to hang on for
Speaker 1: so long is impressive. As the shrewd judge of talent
Speaker 1: respected by and feared by many. The book is Laurene
Speaker 1: the Man who invented Saturday Night and who certainly changed
Speaker 1: the culture, and that's the Book Club. WBZ, Boston's news
Speaker 1: radio