Live' has just celebrated 50 years of comedy, but is producer Lorne Michaels ready to pass the torch to someone else?

The book has too many good Michaels stories to count, but we picked five of the most revealing tidbits that might help you better understand the man behind the show. Michaels made his first trip to New York from Toronto in the winter of 1961 when he was 17.

The longtime 'Saturday Night Live' producer and creator has indicated who could be his replacement when he retires.

“I may be wrong,” he said. “But I don’t feel I’m done.”

SNL is the longest-running, most Emmy-nominated, and highest-rated weekly late-night show in television history. How has Michaels done it?

John Belushi had a particularly tough time dealing with Chase’s sudden fame and began acting out in response. “Belushi devised ways of dodging Chase’s shadow,” Morrison writes. “…The network rented one limousine to ferry the host around each week.

Lorne Michaels, the creator, executive producer and Grand Poobah of “SNL,” wasn’t pleased by its “mawkish righteousness,” writes Susan Morrison in her new book “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live,” out now.

Susan Morrison, author of a new biography on 'Saturday Night Live'-creator Lorne Michaels, reveals management lessons from 50 years of 'SNL.'

The man who made “Saturday Night Live” reflects on its legacy. Is it possible that Lorne Michaels is Lorne-ed out? Even for a man who enjoys being famous, all the hoopla surrounding the 50th anniversary of “Saturday Night Live,” all the extra attention it has brought him, has been a bit much.

Susan Morrison's biography of the late-night comedy producer is also the history of a pop culture institution, now marking its 50th year.

At the center of all the televised festivities for the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live is Lorne Michaels, the dry-humored Canadian who, when Johnny Carson stopped airing reruns of The Tonight Show on Saturday nights (he wanted to run them during the week, in order to take time off), created a live sketch comedy show to fill that 11:30 spot.

Lorne Michaels has helmed “Saturday Night Live,” launching the careers of multiple comedy stars.