- Born
- Birth nameLorne Michael Lipowitz
- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- Lorne Michaels was born on November 17, 1944 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is a producer and writer, known for Saturday Night Live (1975), The Kids in the Hall (1988) and 30 Rock (2006). He has been married to Alice Michaels since 1991. They have three children. He was previously married to Susan Forristal and Rosie Shuster.
- SpousesAlice Michaels(1991 - present) (3 children)Susan Forristal(September 13, 1981 - 1987) (divorced)Rosie Shuster(October 5, 1971 - 1980) (divorced)
- Children
- RelativesNeil Levy(Cousin)
- His Saturday Night Live (1975) is the longest running weekly late-night show in the history of television (as of 2008).
- Counts Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969) as a major influence on his Saturday Night Live (1975) sketches.
- He was best man at Steve Martin's wedding to Anne Stringfield.
- He was a joke writer for comedian and filmmaker Woody Allen.
- His cat Steve is a former Purina calendar model.
- [on John Travolta] John is the perfect star for the 1970s. He has this strange androgynous quality, this all-pervasive sexuality. Men don't find him terribly threatening. And women, well ...
- [observation on his career, 2015] To use a tennis metaphor, after a certain point you can't keep charging the net, and you fall back to the lob game. But you can still win.I think I care just as much as I did at the beginning, and I think - at lots of levels - I'm better at it now. You learn to trust signs that something isn't going to work earlier than you used to, or that this person is talking nonsense earlier than you used to, and you're confident enough to to say, "We've got it. Let's move on".
- [on Chris Farley, whom he fired from "Saturday Night Live" in 1995] I'd gone through hell with John (Belushi) back in the 1970's, and I had no intention of going through it again with Chris; so I dropped him from the lineup.
- [on SNL cast changes]: I think the show has always brought people in from different ages and different generations and it's how it revives itself.
- Saturday Night Live (1975) - $115,000 (1975 season)
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