LORNE, The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live, Book Cover.
Saturday Night Live has been responding to American politics for five decades lampooning Presidents from Jimmy Carter to Donald Trump. Susan Morrison, author of the bestselling book Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live and the articles editor of The New Yorker joins SNL special guests to talk about the longest-running and most relevant comedy show on television.
Book Signing to follow.
ABOUT HAMPTONS INSTITUTE
The Hamptons Institute, established in 2010, returns to Guild Hall this summer, featuring leaders in their fields discussing ideas that shape our community and the world. The 2025 installment is guest-curated by Ellen Chesler, author and Hamptons Institute co-founder (with Guild Hall late Chair, Mickey Straus), and Patricia Duff, founder of the nonpartisan non-profit, The Common Good, dedicated to civic participation, civil dialogue, and finding solutions and common ground. Each evening will explore a single topic from the perspective of multiple professionals, followed by a Q&A.
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Susan Morrison
Susan Morrison is the articles editor of The New Yorker and the author of the New York Times-bestselling biography "Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live." She is the former editor-in-chief of the New York Observer and an original editor of SPY magazine. She lives in New York City.
Photo: Taylor Jewell
Sponsors
Principal Sponsor: Lisa Rosenblum
Performing Arts programs are supported in part by funding from Galia Meiri-Stawski and Axel Stawski, Henry and Peggy Schleiff, The Melville Straus Family Endowment, Monica and Peter Tessler, and Vital Projects Fund. Music Programming is supported in part by The Ellen and James S. Marcus Endowment for Musical Programming.
Additional support provided by Friends of the Theater: Natascia Ayers and Jim Ciquera, Bonnie and Joel Bergstein, Christine and Bill Campbell, John and Joan D’Addario, Gabrielle and Gianpaolo de Felice, Debbie and Henry Druker, Lena Kaplan, Hilarie and Mitchell Morgan, Steve Pesner, in memory of his wife, Michèle Pesner, whose entire life was devoted to all aspects of culture, The Schaffner Family Foundation, Lisa Schultz and Ezriel Kornel, Jayne Baron Sherman and Deborah Zum, Stacey and Oliver Stanton, Susi and Peter Wunsch, and Andrew Yuder and Kyle Glaeser.