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Lorne Michaels

We make fun of our leaders.

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Lorne Michaels

If a culture doesn’t allow you to laugh at the leaders or at things that your eyes and ears tell you are actually happening, that’s not good.

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There are things in low comedy that make people uncomfortable, and there are things in high comedy that make people bored.

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Lorne Michaels

The only show I ever really wanted to do was ‘SNL.’ It was some sort of merging of my talent and my metabolism. It suited who I am and what I do really well, though whatever I was thinking it was, it kept mutating and growing. At first, I didn’t even know that the cast would be the thing everybody talked about. We thought it would be the hosts.

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Lorne Michaels

All babies are ugly unless they’re your baby.

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I was in Los Angeles in 1968, and I was fortunate enough to be a writer on ‘Laugh-In’ and a couple of other television shows.

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All saints are selfish.

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There’s nothing that sells stuff like television. Nothing.

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Lorne Michaels

Saturday Night Live’ has always been, you know, non-partisan – whoever’s in power should probably be challenged.

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I think Samantha Bee is doing a really good show.

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Yeah, I love Los Angeles.

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I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it’s challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.

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