Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels has insisted that Donald Trump's presidency will not have a chilling effect on political comedy — and downplayed the notion that Stephen Colbert's firing was an act of censorship.
In an interview with the online news site Puck, the "famously elusive" 80-year-old TV magnate opened up about the future of TV comics under a president who has repeatedly sued or even threatened to shut down media outlets that displeased him.
