The pair first met in junior high school, when Michaels, born Lorne Lipowitz, followed her home hoping to meet her famous father.
Shuster and Michaels moved to Los Angeles to work on The Lily Tomlin Show for ABC, where they also met Laraine Newman, whom they invited, along with Aykroyd and Radner, to join the Not Ready for Prime Time Players for Saturday Night Live.
Of the beginnings of SNL, Shuster has said, "There was a long incubation period where everybody was kind of falling in love with each other and cracking each other up, trying to find their place, have a voice.
Rock music had broken out in the sixties as well as a lot of films like the Jack Nicholson kind of movies, Five Easy Pieces.
[6] She also wrote a Tyrone sketch for Eddie Murphy which he performed when he was honored with the Mark Twain Award at the Kennedy Center.
During the early nineties, Shuster was a writer and producer for Carol and Company and The Larry Sanders Show with Garry Shandling.