Twenty-time Emmy winner Lorne Michaels has helped jumpstart some of the biggest careers in comedy as creator and executive producer of “Saturday Night Live.” CBS MORNINGS co-host Gayle King sat down with the Kennedy Center honoree and some current cast members and got a behind-the-scenes look at the iconic show.

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- On retirement:

LORNE MICHAELS: You know, I think I’m committed to doing this show until its 50^th anniversary, which is in three years. I’d like to see that through, and I have a feeling that’d be a really good time to leave. But—

GAYLE KING: Do you think that would be a good time to leave?

LORNE MICHAELS: Well, here’s the point. I won’t want the show ever to be bad. I care too deeply about it. It’s been my life’s work. So I’m going to do everything I can to see it carry on and carry on well.

GAYLE KING: Could there be a “Saturday Night Live” without Lorne Michaels?

LORNE MICHAELS: Yeah. Of course.

GAYLE KING: You have some suggestions on who that would be?

LORNE MICHAELS: I have a sense of where we’re headed with that, you know.

- Lorne on the impact he has had on so many careers: “I think it really for the first time hit me on the 40^th anniversary, just seeing all the generations of the show. You can’t put anyone in the cast that you don’t have complete faith in. You may not know how it’ll turn out, but you want that decision to have been pure of heart.”

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