Who will replace Lorne Michaels when he retires?

Go they make guys like Lorne any more?

I nominate Michael Schur.

Too bad Tina Fey got too big for it. She checks all the boxes, but she's meaner than Lorne and wouldn't take too many chances on marginal young comics.

What is Tina doing now?

Why can’t David Spade and Dana Carvey do it?

lilly singh has the right amount of bitchiness to burn bridges and be hated by all.

Wanda Sykes has built up the credit and is as humourless as the snl is.

Chelsea Handler's reputation is trashed, however they've both sucked a lot of cock to rise to the top and never swallowed.

They will hire a young Harvard grad and Lampoon alum who has been in the film business 10 years or so.

Colin Jost will be the logical successor. Please get rid of Lorne. He's old and tired.

Just cancel the piece of shit already.

Amy Poehler has the grit. She's also gotten into producing and is big on fostering up-and-coming talent.

Hire Watson, the terrifying Jeopardy! playing robot champion.

It doesn’t pay enough for Michael Shur.

Tina Fey said years ago she wouldn't take over SNL.

This is the first time I can imagine SNL being cancelled. People are going beyond debating whether it’s good or bad and instead talking about how irrelevant it is. Young people don’t really care about it all. It was the quintessential Baby Boomer show, and I can see it going away with Lorne.

Before the rehab mess, John Mulaney would have been a good choice.

Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler should do it. Seth has the hyper organized thing, Amy is personable.

As long as it becomes funny again...

Seth's monologues aren't even funny. Are you kidding?

I think Seth is hysterical, R17. Not in a stand-up, punchline sort of way.

Instead, he's very clever, fast off the cuff and can tease a person while also showing respect.

John Mulaney strikes me as someone who wears a suit to hide the fact he’s a chaotic mess in real life.

SNL is over. 50 years is an extraordinary, historic long run. Whoever takes it over would be bound to re-invent it and will be damned for doing just that or doing nothing. A no-win no matter what happens. Wrap it up. Go out big on 50 years.

He'll likely be dead before then. Maybe Tina Fey can do it.

Lorne sounds so OLD in the “Fly” podcast. I hate It when my idols get old man voice.

See also: Steven Sodergergh, who isn’t even that old.

Get Peggy Sawyer!

Jost and Che are the names I’ve heard from those following the industry. Who knows.

Agree with R20.

All TV institutions at some point have to ride off in the sunset. Gunsmoke, Ed Sullivan, Carson. SNL is no different. The only thing that's been keep this show alive for the last decade and a half are its political sketches, and most of the regular cast members aren't even in them. The time to pack it in is long overdue.

They should get some young, fresh blood in there and do something completely different.

Wrap it up at 50. It's a nice place to end it and it gives everyone on the sinking ship a dignified out.

Why can't SNL just die?

Maybe Kenan can run it. He’s sooo funny. 🙄

Get Christie Love!

Oh, I’d definitely never cancel it. Revamping it the next year will make it even better!!

Is Marci Klein done-done?

^ What? Did she get kidnapped again?

OP, that show should have been canceled years ago.

R25, first you say cancel it, then you say put new people. Make up your mind.

Leslie Jones deserves it

Leslie Jones constantly botched her lines in sketches. No way would she be able to run a show. Something about her screams mental illness to me.

Since the next day streaming of SNL on Hulu has stopped any lingering interest has been lost. Not paying for Peacock.

Just watch the sketches on youtube

Guy Ritchie. Seriously.

R36 it's amazing how quickly she disappeared.

R40 Jones hasn't completely disappeared. She still occasionally get roles in movies and tv shows. Jones also has podcast on Earwolf called The Fckry. Other Earwolf podcasts have been promoting it. The promos state she and Lenny Marcus give advice to people. I haven't listened to it, but I'm sure she's annoying as fuck on it. I'm surprised she got involved with Earwolf given some of the drama that has gone down in the past few years at Earwolf with some of the podcast creators. I also wouldn't be surprised if Jones is lifting/ripping comedy material from other podcasters with similar audiences like Nicole Byer and Naomi Ekperigin.

I don't know. It will be some snot nosed Harvard cunt born and raised on the east Coast ( either DC, NYC or Boston).

SNL always kind of bored me because they were so politically based. It's for the people who watch C SPAN everyday. Mad tv was trashy but they were better at creating original characters and making fun of scenarios that happen in real life.

Now I wonder if Spade and Carvey are quietly lobbying for the job. They aren’t doing much high profile stuff (though I love the podcast.)

[quote] Who will replace Lorne Michaels when he retires?

Why, Sinead O'Connor, of course.

Louise Lasser is tanned, relaxed and ready.

The obvious answer is Lens Dunham.

Does it make money or not? That's the deciding factor. It must still make money or they would have cancelled it already. They aren't sentimental. They aren't producing Bros once a week. There is no mission here.

Michael Shur really would be perfect. But he’s making too much money with tv.

No one. They should bury that geriatric “comedy” along with Lorne.

Although I will admit to enjoying John Maloney’s guest stints.

Aside from the very rare YouTube clip, I haven't watched it for 30+ years. And it's even rater that a friend will make a reference to it - maybe once a year?

I watched it often for a decade and, then sporadically, then not at all. Far better things can be found among the stand up comedy on TV or radio that have proliferated; SNL seems some quaint amateur hour kept around for (somebody else's) sentimental reasons. There's no water cooler. There's no collective experience. It's been dead foe along time.

I'm surprised he's still working; most people his age would have been laid off decades ago.

I find it odd that there's so little gossip about him. I mean he's been a public figure for so long

r53 he strikes me as a Louie B Meyer type. Probably has everything on wraps and will ruin anyone who speaks out. NDAs and settlements galore too.

Wanna bet Chris Rock's a contender?

Let it die with him, and throw the current cast on the funeral pyre

Leslie Jones is 55.

Must be a black woman.

R44, I don't think either would want it. It's a grueling schedule. Didn't Dana have heart surgery?

It's going to be Seth Myers. The Late Night gig is just a placeholder.

Seth was respected and a natural leader as head-writer. Lorne liked him, the cast liked him, the suits liked him.

It has a really big budget and the expectation is that after Lorne goes/dies, the budget will be cut.

Seth Meyers would be a good choice. Would he do it, though?

This

After the first 2 episodes this season, I say force retirement on the tired old fucker NOW.

Norman Lear

Lea Michele. They can keep most of the letters.