Lorne Michaels

Lorne Michaels
Lorne Michaels CM is a Canadian-American television producer, writer, comedian, and actor, best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live, and producing the Late Night series, and The Tonight Show...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionTV Producer
Date of Birth17 November 1944
CityToronto, Canada
CountryCanada
thinking healthy way
I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.
thinking voice originals
I am always looking for what I think are original voices.
thinking way now-and-then
If the way they make the show makes it fresh, then it's worthwhile. I think all of these forms have to be blown up every now and then and start again.
early
Too early to say, but more than likely.
turns wheel
Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns turns.
beaten effect fair letting profound screwed seemed
Look, she really screwed up and it had a profound effect on her career. To me, it seemed it wasn't fair for someone that young to be that severely beaten up. So we're letting her come back.
feels knows
She knows that she should come back when she feels up to it. I don't have any idea when that will be.
admired attention detail paid prince
You can tell that he paid attention in that kind of detail to Prince because he admired him that much. He comes from the place of a fan.
laughter overly
It's really important that we get out there and we laugh. We're not going to be overly sappy.
dying second since
It's been dying since the second season. It's always about reinvention.
Could I get a friggin' Hot Pocket around here?
credit good might night
A 'Saturday Night Live' credit might look good on his resume!
seeing wave
I think you're seeing the wave of the future.
god knows last six tends written
God knows there has been a lot we could have done in the last six weeks. That tends to get written in the last two days.