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.

Honors

In 1999, Michaels was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame. In 2002, Michaels was made a Member of the Order of Canada, that country's highest honor for lifetime achievement, and awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2004, he was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the first non-American to earn this honor. Speaking at the awards ceremony, original Saturday Night Live cast member Dan Aykroyd described Michaels as "the primary satirical voice of the country.?

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1999 - Television Academy Hall of Fame - 2002 - Order of Canada - Hollywood Walk of Fame - 2004 - Mark Twain Prize for American Humor - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

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