Yeah, as an obsessive about the show I feel this is going to hurt me very, very much. Love the "Michaels gives Chase Update right before airtime" bit, lol for fuck's sake. I'm bracing for impact. (Great piece, btw.)
Immediately downloaded the Harry Schearer wtf episode. Thanks for confirming this one is not for me!
This is excellent and thank you also for linking Seth Simons's Longreads piece on Lorne Michaels. His work doesn't get enough attention
Ruh roh
They have Michaels handing over Weekend Update to Chase literal minutes before showtime? HAHAHAHAHA Michaels' ego would never allow him to give anything up.
Kinda wild that the history of the show's early years is so well documented already in multiple deeply researched books and yet Lorne being scheduled to do Update and giving it to Chevy at the last minute never fucking appeared in ANY of them. Tom Shales is cursing them from the afterlife. 🤔🤨🙄
The trailer for this looked so up its own ass.