Lorne Michaels Once Said “Saturday Night Live”’s Original Cast Members Were All 'Stuck in Adolescence'

In an unaired ’60 Minutes’ clip from 2004, Michaels discussed the show’s original 1975 cast

Back in 2004, Lorne Michaels reflected on one thing everyone in the original cast of Saturday Night Live had in common.

“Everybody that I chose had gone through some screw up in adolescence in that original group,” he said. “Either death of a parent, divorce, something, some upheaval.”

The off-the-cuff comment came during a break in Michaels’ 2004 interview with 60 Minutes’ Lesley Stahl, and is one of several unaired outtakes featured in the latest episode of CBS News’ new podcast, 60 Minutes: A Second Look.

Michaels, now 79, added that SNL’s original 1975 cast members, which included comedy legends Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase and John Belushi, were all “stuck in adolescence” for one reason or another.

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Stahl noted that this was something Michaels had said of himself previously.

“I know that your father died when you were 14 years old,” she said. “And I read that you said that you think you got stuck in adolescence because of that. Is that right? Do you think that you're still an adolescent?”

“I'm considerably less since being a father, but I think there was a long period of time in which I thought it was all right to challenge authority,” Michaels, a father of three, replied in the unaired exchange.

Stahl also questioned Michaels about drug use among SNL’s original cast in the mid 1970s.

“I think we were no different than anybody else that was working [at the time],” Michaels said. “There were parties afterwards, as there still are. I mean … you pump that much adrenaline and it’s 1 a.m. and the nights are over and then people would go to a party. I think there was just as much alcohol as there was anything else.”

Michaels explained that things changed for him after Belushi’s 1982 death — at a time when neither was working on SNL — from a drug overdose following a long struggle with addiction.

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“There was a period which ended abruptly for me when John Belushi died,” Michaels told Stahl in the unaired 2004 clip. “But there was something, a value system that was much more fraternal, in the sense of ‘Whatever gets you through the night’ or ‘Who might have judged what somebody else does as long as people show up on time, can do their job, whatever.’ Clearly a bogus value system, and it didn't work. And I think people felt that, you know, people's privacy and what they did was their own thing.”

The dawn of that early period in SNL’s history will be depicted in the upcoming Saturday Night. The Jason Reitman-directed film tracks the 90 minutes leading up to the show’s Oct. 11, 1975, premiere, with Gabriel LaBelle as Michaels and Matt Wood as Belushi alongside Dylan O'Brien as Aykroyd, Cory Michael Smith as Chase, Matthew Rhys as George Carlin and Nicholas Braun as Jim Henson. The film opens wide on Oct. 11, 49 years to the day since SNL premiered.

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