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    Lorne Michaels CC (born Lorne David Lipowitz; November 17, 1944) is a Canadian-American television writer and film producer. He created and produces Saturday...
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  • Releasing on October 11, 2024. Gabriel LaBelle as Lorne Michaels Rachel Sennott as Rosie Shuster Cory Michael Smith as Chevy Chase Ella Hunt as Gilda Radner...
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  • special retrospective in February 2025. In late 2021, long-time producer Lorne Michaels stated that he was committed to continuing on the series through the...
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  • Saturday Night Live's creator, Lorne Michaels, from 1967 to 1980. The pair first met in junior high school, when Michaels, born Lorne Lipowitz, followed her home...
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  • and Lorne Michaels. The show mixed comedy sketches with musical guests, in a format similar to Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, the show that Michaels was working...
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    variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Michaels and Dick Ebersol that airs on NBC and streams on Peacock. Michaels currently serves as the...
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  • first order of business was hiring a young Canadian producer named Lorne Michaels to be the show-runner. Television production in New York was already...
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  • making him the longest tenured writer in the show's history. SNL creator Lorne Michaels called Downey the "best political humorist alive". Downey was born in...
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  • sketch comedy series that was co-created by Dick Ebersol and Lorne Michaels, with Michaels also serving as the producer. The series premiered on the American...
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    Broadway Video is an American multimedia entertainment studio founded by Lorne Michaels, creator of the sketch comedy TV series Saturday Night Live and producer...
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  • Three Amigos (category Films produced by Lorne Michaels)
    1986 American Western comedy film directed by John Landis, written by Lorne Michaels, Steve Martin, and Randy Newman (who also wrote the film's songs), and...
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  • as a joint venture between Saturday Night Live creator and producer Lorne Michaels, NBC Studios, and Paramount Pictures. Paramount's part of the venture...
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  • music radio station in New York. Other recent projects include the Lorne Michaels–produced comedy series Bust Down, in which Redd plays a discontented...
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    Live (SNL) is a late-night sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. It premiered on the NBC Television Network on October 11, 1975, under...
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    1975 cast. Recommended by Al Franken to Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels, the acquisition of Shearer was seen as an unofficial replacement for...
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  • (originally called NBC's Saturday Night), creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels assigned him the position of head writer. O'Donoghue appeared in the...
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  • Canadian rower Lorne Mayencourt (born 1957), Canadian politician Lorne Michaels (born 1944), Canadian-born television producer Lorne Molleken (born 1956)...
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  • a script by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber was announced to be in the works, with SNL creator Lorne Michaels set to produce. Later that month,...
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    I've said." Four days later, a spokesperson for SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels announced that Gillis had been removed from the cast. Afterward, Gillis...
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    comedy improvisational group The Groundlings. She was first hired by Lorne Michaels for a Lily Tomlin TV special in 1974. The next year Newman became one...
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    City. She was hired as a writer following a meeting with SNL creator Lorne Michaels, and moved from Chicago to New York. Fey told The New Yorker, "I'd had...
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    1975, Chase and writer Michael O'Donoghue recommended Belushi to Lorne Michaels as a potential member for a television show Michaels was about to produce...
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  • communication failures, was furious. He believed that SNL producer Lorne Michaels, who was in the midst of negotiating a new contract, had orchestrated...
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    producer for The Simpsons for two seasons until he was selected by Lorne Michaels and NBC to take over David Letterman's position as host of Late Night...
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    2001, because of budget cuts and the hiring of four new cast members, Lorne Michaels was required to dismiss two cast members; he chose to lay off Parnell...
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  • The film was co-produced by the production companies of Eric Idle and Lorne Michaels, and it was directed by Idle and Gary Weis. It was first broadcast on...
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  • asked by Lorne Michaels about doing a "Bass-O-Matic" sketch, while Mike Myers and Dana Carvey requested to reprise Wayne's World. Michaels stated that...
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  • following is a list of Saturday Night Live writers. The show, created by Lorne Michaels, is an American live sketch comedy and variety show. Airing since 1975...
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  • and May 24, 1986. The season marked Lorne Michaels' return to SNL as showrunner after a five-year hiatus. Michaels hired new cast members, but instead...
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    Michael John Myers OC (born May 25, 1963) is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. His accolades include seven MTV Movie & TV Awards, a...
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