Lorne Michaels Hints at When He’ll Be Ready to Retire From ‘Saturday Night Live’: ‘I Care Too Deeply’

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Live from New York — but maybe not for much longer. After decades behind the scenes, Lorne Michaels is opening up about when he’d be ready to say goodbye to Saturday Night Live.“I think I’m committed to doing this show until its 50th anniversary, which is in three years,” the 77-year-old told CBS Mornings on Monday, December 20. “I’d like to see that through, and I have a feeling that’d be a really good time to leave.

But here’s the point: I won’t want the show ever to be bad. I care too deeply about it. It’s been my life’s work. So I’m gonna do everything I can to see it carry on and carry on well.”Michaels cocreated the NBC late-night show in 1975 and has only briefly stepped away in the 47 seasons since, taking a five-year hiatus in the