Lorne Michaels

Lorne Michaels C.M (born November 17, 1944) is a 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.

Early career

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.

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Jewish - Toronto - Laugh-In - The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show

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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 That's Show Biz in 1970.

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1960s - 1970s - Barris & Company - 1968 - The Hart and Lorne Terrific Hour - 1971 - 1970

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