Lorne Michaels

Lorne Michaels (born November 17, 1944) is a Canadian television producer, writer and comedian 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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• Principally, the job is to hold an audience, and to do it in an intelligent, and hopefully thought-provoking way, but you don’t put thought-provoking on the marquee.
  • BBC interview “Frost on Satire” ^{[specific citation needed]}