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Lorne Michaels is a Canadian and American producer, writer and director who created Saturday Night Live in 1975 and has shaped American comedy for half a century. He has produced SNL from 1975 to 1980 and again since 1985, plus Late Night since 1993, The Kids in the Hall from 1988 to 1995 and The Tonight Show since 2014, and his company Broadway Video has been behind 30 Rock and films including Three Amigos (1986), Wayne's World (1992), A Night at the Roxbury (1998) and Mean Girls (2004). He started as a writer and broadcaster at CBC Radio with partner Hart Pomerantz, writing in Los Angeles for Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In in 1968 and later starring in The Hart and Lorne Terrific Hour. Michaels has won 24 Primetime Emmy Awards from 112 nominations, more nominations than any other individual. His honors include induction into the Television Hall of Fame (1999), the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (2004), the International Emmy Directorate Award (2010), the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2016), Companion of the Order of Canada (2018) and the Time 100 (2025). He offers rare insight into comedy.
- Active since 1968
- Born in Toronto
- Honors: Presidential Medal of Freedom, Emmy
- Category: Speaker
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- Inducted into the Television Hall of Fame
- Received the Canada's Walk of Fame
- Received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
- Received the International Emmy Directorate Award
- Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Received Companion of the Order of Canada
- Received the Time 100
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