“The joke I used to do is I’d say ‘You know, there will be a time when I realize that it can’t be as good as it used to be, and that I don’t have the focus or the passion to do it in the same way, and that the quality will suffer, and then three years after that I’ll leave.’”
- Lorne Michaels comments on his SNL departure plans in an in-depth podcast interview with Bill Simmons, which covers everything from the creation of SNL to the early ‘80s years to Michaels’s thoughts on recaps and reviews in the internet age.
