Carol Burnett calls Lorne Michaels misogynistic for SNL snub
A comedy crime.
Carol Burnett recently addressed that Lorne Michaels has never invited her to host “Saturday Night Live.”
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“I don’t know what I did to upset that man,” the 92-year-old comedy legend told The New Yorker in an interview published Monday.
“Do you think it’s misogynistic?” Burnett asked the interviewer.
The Post has reached out to Michaels’ rep and “SNL” for comment.
In the 50 years that Michaels’ NBC sketch comedy series has been on the air, Burnett has shockingly never hosted a single episode.
The only time she appeared on the show was for a brief segment during a 1985 episode hosted by Harry Anderson.
In 2023, Burnett told Fox News Digital of hosting the show: “I would not be interested. That’s all I can say.”
Her longtime absence from the show also came up during a 2016 interview with Larry King.
“You’re kidding. They’ve never had Carol?” a stunned King asked a serious Burnett.
“Would you host it? You should host it,” he continued, to which Burnett replied with a smile, “If I was asked.”
According to the 2014 book “Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live,” Michaels, 80, reportedly used Burnett’s name as shorthand for dated comedy, which some speculate is the reason she’s never been invited to host the show.
When he was laying out his vision for “SNL” in 1975, Michaels reportedly wanted the series to be as different as possible from “The Carol Burnett Show,” her variety/sketch show that ran from 1967 to 1978.
“That’s Carol Burnett,” Michaels would apparently say as he’d denounce an idea.
The TV producer himself confirmed in January that he’d invoke Burnett’s name in the early days of the show.
“‘Carol Burnett’ was Broadway,” he told The New Yorker. “We were rock and roll. Their sketches were about alcoholism, divorce, life in the suburbs—middle-aged stuff. I wanted us writing about our stuff.”
“SNL” comes back this weekend for Season 51, with Bad Bunny, Amy Poehler and Sabrina Carpenter hosting the first three episodes.
The show recently underwent a major cast shakeup; Devon Walker, Emil Wakim, Michael Longfellow, Heidi Gardner and Ego Nwodim all exited the series, while Ben Marshall, Tommy Brennan, Jeremy Culhane, Kam Patterson and Veronika Slowikowska were added to the cast.
Michaels warned a cast shake-up was coming to “SNL” before all the changes were announced.
At the Emmys earlier this month, Michaels told Extra that “new people” is the best way to keep the show “fresh” after a whopping 50 seasons.
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