Lorne Michaels

Lorne Michaels
Birth name	Lorne Michael Lipowitz
Born	November 17, 1944 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Notable Shows	Saturday Night Live
Awards	12 Emmy Awards

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Lorne Michaels (born Lorne Lipowitz) is a Canadian-American television producer, writer, comedian, and actor, best known for creating and producing the long-running Saturday Night Live, the Late Night series, and The Tonight Show.

Biography

Michaels was born in Toronto, Ontario, to Florence (Becker) and Henry Abraham Lipowitz, a furrier. He was the oldest of the Lipowitz children. He has a sister, Barbara Lipowitz, who is currently living in Toronto, and a brother, Mark Lipowitz, who died from a brain tumor. Michaels attended the Forest Hill Collegiate Institute in Toronto and graduated from University College, University of Toronto, where he majored in English, in 1966. Michaels' career started as a writer and broadcaster for CBC Radio. In 1968, he moved to Los Angeles to work as a writer for Laugh-In and The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show. He starred with Hart Pomerantz in The Hart and Lorne Terrific Hour, a Canadian comedy series that ran briefly in the 1970s.

In the 1960s, he married Rosie Shuster, who later worked with him as a writer on Saturday Night Live. She was the daughter of Frank Shuster, who was one half of famous comedy team Wayne and Shuster. In 1980, they filed for divorce.

In 1975, Michaels, fellow NBC employee Dick Ebersol, and then president of the network Herb Schlosser created the sketch comedy NBC's Saturday Night, which later changed its name to Saturday Night Live in 1977.

Producer

Series	Year(s)	Credit	Season(s)
Saturday Night Live	1975 –present	Executive Producer	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
			22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42
The New Show	1984	Executive Producer	1
The Kids in the Hall	1988 –1995	Executive Producer	1	2	3	4	5
Late Night with Conan O'Brien	1993 –2009	Executive Producer	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
Sons & Daughters	2006	Executive Producer	1
30 Rock	2006 –2013	Executive Producer	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon	2009 –2014	Executive Producer	1	2	3	4	5	6
Portlandia	2011 –present	Executive Producer	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Up All Night	2011 –2012	Executive Producer	1	2
I Wanna Have Your Baby	2011	Executive Producer	1
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	2014 –present	Executive Producer	1	2	3	4
Late Night with Seth Meyers	2014 –present	Executive Producer	1	2	3	4
Mulaney	2014 –2015	Executive Producer	1
Man Seeking Woman	2015 –2017	Executive Producer	1	2	3
Documentary Now!	2015 –present	Executive Producer	1	2
Detroiters	2017 –present	Executive Producer	1
A.P. Bio	2018 –present	Executive Producer	1
Miracle Workers	2019 –2021	Executive Producer	1	2	3

Writer

Series	Year(s)	Credit	Season(s)
The Beautiful Phyliss Diller Show	1968	Writer	1
Saturday Night Live	1975 –present	Writer
The New Show	1984	Writer	1

Roles

Talk, News and Game Show Appearances

Series	Episode	Airdate
The Hart & Lorne Terrific Hour		September 19, 1971
The Midnight Special	Episode 921	February 20, 1981
Late Night with David Letterman		February 14, 1983
Showbiz Today		March 10, 1992
Showbiz Today		October 5, 1992
Showbiz Today		April 5, 1995
Charlie Rose		September 26, 1997
Entertainment Tonight		April 10, 2015