Lorne Michaels

Production · Born 1944-11-17 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Biography

Lorne Michaels (born Lorne David Lipowitz; November 17, 1944) is a Canadian and American television and film producer, comedian, screenwriter and director. He created and produced Saturday Night Live (1975–1980, 1985–present) and produced the Late Night series (since 1993), The Kids in the Hall (from 1989 to 1995), and The Tonight Show (since 2014). He has received 24 Primetime Emmy Awards from 112 nominations, holding the record as the most nominated individual in the award show's history. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lorne Michaels, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

• Lorne (2026)
• Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music (2025)
• SNL50: The Homecoming Concert (2025)
• Downey Wrote That (2025)
• I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not (2025)
• In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon (2024)
• Will & Harper (2024)
• The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks (2022)
• Belushi (2020)
• Cracked Up (2019)
• Love, Gilda (2018)
• Sandy Wexler (2017)
• The Last Laugh (2016)
• Live from New York! (2015)
• I Am Chris Farley (2015)
• The Last Impresario (2014)
• Paul Simon: Under African Skies (2012)
• Inside Portlandia (2011)
• Saturday Night (2010)
• Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again (2010)
• Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation (2007)
• Laser Cats! (2006)
• Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live (2005)
• Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found (2005)