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JULIA SWEENEY:

I still have approval dreams about Lorne, which is very embarrassing. Like I wake up and I say to myself, “Oh God, how many fucking years does it take before you don’t have Lorne showing up in your dreams telling you that you did a good job on something?” I mean, like that’s pretty deep into the psyche.

BERNIE BRILLSTEIN, Manager:

If I had to make only one deal in my life with the devil or Satan, I’d send Lorne. Because after the conversation was over, they would give him what he wanted. He is the most articulate guy in the world. He doesn’t always know if he’s right or wrong, but he always makes it sound great.

CHRIS ROCK, Cast Member:

How can anyone hate the guy? A lot of people have problems with Lorne. A lot of people I’ve met from the show come from these great backgrounds, and they’re not used to working for people. And you know he hired you to work for him, there’s no working with. You’re only working with if you count the money at the end of the night. Otherwise you’re working for. And when you’re working for somebody, you’re going to have to do shit you don’t want to do. And sometimes they’re not going to talk to you. And that’s what working for people is.

BOB TISCHLER, Writer:

I don’t have a whole lot of respect for Lorne’s opinion. To me, it was better if Bill Murray said he liked a sketch. I just don’t think Lorne is creatively terrific. I don’t know him that well, but whenever I had a meeting with him, I’ve walked out of the room going, “I don’t even know what the fuck just went on.” I don’t hold him in the same regard that a lot of people do. I was just never very impressed with him. I thought he spent more time talking about theories of comedy, things that were very nonsubstantive in terms of what we had to do.

BRIAN DOYLE-MURRAY, Cast Member:

I was down in Florida working on the movie Caddyshack with Harold Ramis and I came back a little late. As soon as I arrived, my brother Bill asked me, “Have you seen Lorne yet?” I said, “No, I haven’t seen him.” He says, “Don’t you realize you’re supposed to go kiss the Pope’s ring?”

LILY TOMLIN, Host:

I don’t really want to say a lot about Lorne. I don’t think he could accomplish what he has accomplished if he wasn’t ambitious. Also he’s much more astute politically than someone like me. He would know who to have lunch with. It would never occur to me to have lunch with somebody, or something like that. I’ve never understood about functioning in the system.

CRAIG KELLEM, Associate Producer:

My theory about Lorne is that he is one of these guys whose mother told him every day of his life when he was a kid that he was the most wonderful person in the world and he could do no wrong. Because Lorne just believed in what he was doing, and nobody was going to get in his way. He was determined to get what he wanted, to accomplish what he wanted, and do it the way that he wanted it. If something worried him, he wasn’t overt about it. He just figured out what he wanted to do and somehow his willpower outlasted everybody else’s resistance.

JANEANE GAROFALO, Cast Member:

My secret assumption about Lorne is that he may suffer from such a deep case of self-loathing that if you agree to be on his show and you are nice to him, he cannot respect you. So therefore you are left to wallow in your own despair. He was always very nice to me, but I just presumed that he had to have been aware that the environment was toxic. He had to know that there were so many unhappy people, yet as far as I know, he was never concerned. He rules on the theory of a house divided is a house that’s more easily controlled.

ALEC BALDWIN, Host:

Lorne is a good friend of mine. I have a lot of respect for him and I admire what he’s done and continued to do, and not just because of the longevity. I still think the show from time to time is really funny. Lorne is the glue that holds it together — or doesn’t hold it together, as the case may be, because he can be very laissez-faire about how he conducts