Lorne Michaels reflected on himself and his first cast being 'stuck in adolescence' and how that influenced the attitude and culture of SNL
Denise Cetta recalls even the cast being hesitant to speak on Michaels and his leadership style. As for Michaels himself, he was
“suspicious of Leslie’s intentions and wanting to make sure that he got every answer exactly the way he wanted it.”during her performance. But Michaels handled the situation calmly. At that point, he was 30 years into running a live sketch comedy show, so not much could phase him—except for Lesley Stahl’s questions about the drug culture behind the scenes of the show and the destructive behaviors of original cast members like John Belushi and Gilda Radner.
“There was a period, which ended abruptly for me when John Belushi died, but there was something, a value system that was much more fraternal,” he reflected. “In the sense of, ‘Whatever gets you through the night,’ or, ‘Who am I to judge what somebody else does, as long as people show up on time, can do their job, whatever,’ clearly a bogus value system, and it didn’t work. And I think people felt that people’s privacy and what they did was their own thing.
In the first cast , “everybody that I chose had gone through some screw-up in adolescence,” Michaels told Stahl. “Either death of a parent, divorce, something, some upheaval.” Michaels, too, had lost his father at a young age, causing him to feel “stuck in adolescence” in a way that made him more likely to “challenge authority.” That attitude presents itself in, which Michaels insists is never “partisan.
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