Lorne Michaels

Lorne Michaels CM , LL.D (born November 17, 1944 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian-born American television producer and writer best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live and producing the various film and TV projects that spun off from it.

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Michaels was born Lorne Michael Lipowitz to a Jewish family in Toronto. He moved to Los Angeles from Toronto in 1968 to work as a writer for Laugh-In and The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show. During the late 1960s and early 1970s Michaels wrote for a number of Canadian TV series and specials such as Barris & Company in 1968 and The Hart and Lorne Terrific Hour in 1971. He was a cast member of the Canadian program That's Show Biz in 1970. In 1973 he married his junior high school sweetheart, Rosie Shuster, who would work with him on Saturday Night Live as a writer [1]. She was the daughter of Frank Shuster, one half of the famous comedy team, Wayne and Shuster. Michaels and Rosie were divorced in 1980.

n 1975, Michaels created the TV show Saturday Night Live. The show, which is performed live in front of a studio audience, immediately established a reputation for being cutting edge and unpredictable. It became a vehicle for launching the careers of some of the best-known comedians in North America, including: Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, and Will Ferrell. Originally the producer of the show, Michaels was also a writer and later became executive producer. He occasionally appears on-screen, as well. SNL has been nominated for more than 80 Emmy Awards and has won 18. It has consistently been one of the highest-rated late-night television programs.

Michaels has been with SNL for all seasons except for his hiatus in the early 1980s (seasons 6-10).

Michaels started Broadway Video in 1979, producing such shows as The Kids in the Hall.

After temporarily leaving SNL in 1980, Michaels created another sketch show entiltled The New Show. It received good reviews but was a failure in the ratings and it was cancelled after 2 months.

In the 1980s, Lorne Michaels appeared in an HBO mockumentary titled The Canadian Conspiracy about the supposed subversion of the United States by Canadian-born media personalities, with Lorne Greene as the leader of the conspiracy. Michaels was identified as the anointed successor to Green.

Michaels has been executive producer of NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien since it debuted in 1993.

In 1999, Michaels was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame. In 2002, Michaels was made a member of the Order of Canada for lifetime achievement, and awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2004, he was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the first non-American to earn this honour. Speaking at the awards ceremony, original Saturday Night Live cast member Dan Aykroyd described Michaels as "the primary satirical voice of the country."

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Seth Meyers Named Host Of NBC's 'Late Night'
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The real winner here is Lorne Michaels, who now controls all three NBC late night shows. NBC completed its late-night revamp by naming Seth Meyers host of Late Night. He will succeed Jimmy Fallon who is taking over The Tonight Show next spring, ...

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Yahoo to Launch 'SNL' Hub Via Deal With Lorne Michaels' Broadway Video
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Yahoo is building an archive of 38 years worth of clips from Saturday Night Live through a deal with Broadway Video, the company founded by SNL creator Lorne Michaels. our editor recommends. 'SNL' Recap: Peter Dinklage Plays Drunk Uncle; Melissa ...

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Robin Roberts Gets Standing Ovation at Peabody Awards Presentation
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Joining fellow honorees Lorne Michaels and Louis C.K. at the New York event, the "Good Morning America" host tells THR about the ABC News segment that chronicled her bone marrow transplant: “I don't regret it at all. But it wasn't easy." ...

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Because it's live, it's like the Flying Wallenda Family. I think that the brilliance of it is that it was at 11:30pm, which was considered graveyard, and then Lorne Michaels got the format down and he stuck with it as a brand. The cold opening, the ...

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