Overview

• In a new interview, the 92-year-old said, “I don’t know what I did to upset that man,” then asked if the decades-long omission was “misogynistic.”
• Across the show’s run, she has never hosted Saturday Night Live, with only a brief 1985 appearance during an episode hosted by Harry Anderson.
• Reporting cites a 2014 book and Michaels’ own remarks that he used “Carol Burnett” as shorthand for ideas he viewed as dated and aimed to position SNL as “rock and roll,” not “Broadway.”
• Outlets say they requested comment from Michaels and SNL after the interview; no public response was included in the coverage.
• The renewed scrutiny arrives as SNL launches Season 51 with Bad Bunny, Amy Poehler, and Sabrina Carpenter booked as early hosts and with several cast exits and additions confirmed.