But the ending was painfully familiar. On December 18, 1997, just two months after hosting SNL, Chris Farley died of an overdose at 33. Cocaine and heroin, the same fatal mix that took Belushi. It was ...

During a recent appearance on Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, biographer Susan Morrison looked back at how the head of Saturday Night Live, Lorne Michaels, used to deal with drug addiction among SNL ...

the Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live author explained that Michaels changed his laissez-faire approach to the cast’s drinking and drug usage after original cast member John Belushi died ...

SNL’s enigmatic creator and producer, Lorne Michaels ... between Chase and the rest of the cast continued to mount. John Belushi had a particularly tough time dealing with Chase’s sudden ...

Lorne Michaels had some legitimate fears when Jack Black hosted Saturday Night Live in April 2025.

Susan Morrison, author of the biography “Lorne ... Morrison recalled that Michaels, 80, went into overdrive to help Farley after original cast member John Belushi died of a drug overdose ...

Lorne Michaels biographer Susan Morrison is recalling ... the cast’s drinking and drug usage after original cast member John Belushi died of a drug overdose in 1982. “When Belushi died ...

Michaels’ biographer Susan Morrison, author of Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live, revealed during a recent appearance on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast that John Belushi ...

Comedian John Mulaney has revealed ... Night Live creator Lorne Michaels during his struggle with addiction. Michaels reminded Mulaney of the death of John Belushi, one of the original cast ...