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Here's The Thing: Lorne Michaels and Erica Jong & Molly Jong-Fast

Bryan Bedder, Getty (Michaels)/Nigel Parry (Jong)
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Courtesy WNYC

Alec visits Lorne Michaels in his office at Rockefeller Center – the same office he’s had since 1975, when he created Saturday Night Live. Michaels and Alec talk about what led to SNL, and Michaels early years doing subversive political satire on Canadian radio. Alec also talks with writer Erica Jong and her daughter Molly Jong-Fast as they spar about sex and the legacy of the feminist movement.

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