The NBC thought of fire Lorne Michaels from SNL in the 90s and even interviewed a famous comedian writer for his work

50 years have passed since the comedy Sketch Show Saturday Night Live Hit the NBC and became a weekly point on many of our screens.

To celebrate the main goal of the show, the network has published several specials including those focused on the rich musical history of the series, a live concert and another show that has welcomed many previous members of the previous cast to relive old scenes and brand new material.

It was very fun to look back in the last 50 years of greatness of the comedy. But there was also a dirt revealed on the past of the show, including a period of time when the study thought of shooting the founder of the show, Lorne Michaels.

A celebratory version was the book Lorne: the man who invented Saturday Night Liveby Susan Morrison, who gave fans some never uferic stories about the story of Snl.

One of these stories was transmitted to CinemaBlend in an interview in which Morrison explained that in the 90s, the NBC briefly spoke of giving Michaels the boot and even interviewed someone who had in mind to hire enormous work. Morrison explained:

“I didn’t know that the network had come to the point of interviewing people to replace it. You know, I didn’t know they had contacted Judd apatowwho was only twenty years old and had this type of very vague conversations with him, perhaps, perhaps to arrive in a role of producer and who knows what would happen later. And because they were really thinking of shooting lorne. “

Apatow is known above all for the writing and direction of great comedies such as The Ben Stiller Show, The 40 -year Virgin, Firm, Crazy and geek, It is 40And much more. It has a unique and super funny style, and I get the charm, but I am happy that Lorne Michaels has been able to cling and continue to create a hilarious and relevant show.

In his research for Lorne: the man who invented Saturday Night LiveSusan Morrison also learned how Judd Apatow felt both for the show and the process that led him to be interviewed to manage things. Morrison transmitted:

“Judd has loved the show. It was always his dream to work on the show e [Adam] Sandler was his roommate. He knew the show well, and therefore he was intrigued, but he was so discouraged by the subtle behavior of the rear channel of these guys that I think he felt that Karmically he would have been so wrong and so disrespectful of Lorne, and what Lorne had created, that he told them: “forget it.” I don’t think it’s widely known that he was really on the strings there. “

It takes much character to refuse a job like running Saturday Night Live. But fortunately Apatow’s career has remained constantly solid, so he did the right thing. And who knows? Perhaps Lorne Michaels will be ready to retire early and Apatow can intervene in his condition. We will just have to wait and see.