“Saturday Night Live” has been on television for 50 years. Where does one begin to write a book about SNL founder Lorne Michaels? It’s hard enough just to review the book.

“SNL” was born in 1975, all but a few years produced by Michaels. A well researched book isn’t necessary to know that SNL marked a revolution in television.

But a well researched book is exactly what Susan Morrison has written in “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live.” One might say the book is more a biography of Lorne Michaels (born Lorne Lipowitz) than it is a book about the TV show. On the other hand, the founder of the show and the show itself are inseparable.

Coming from Toronto as a young man, Michaels paid his dues in television, writing for shows “Laugh-In” and “The Phyllis Diller Show.” But those

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