Lorne Michaels is promising a major change in the "Saturday Night Live" lineup.
The co-founder and longtime producer of the show said in a recent interview with Puck News that, after wanting to keep a steady bow through "SNL's" 50th anniversary extravaganza, he's ready to shake up the team of sketch comics that coax laughs in the wee hours of NBC's weekend broadcast.
"There couldn't be those kind of disruptions, or anything that was going to take the focus off (the 50th season). And we had an election," Michaels, 80, said of the decision to hold back on major casting changes.
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He added that, as the show enters the back half of its climb to a century on the air, he feels pressure to reinvent it.
