Lorne Michaels

Lorne Michaels (born Lorne David Lipowitz; November 17, 1944) is a Canadian-American television writer and film producer. He created and produces Saturday Night Live (1975–1980, 1985–present) and produced the Late Night series (since 1993), The Kids in the Hall (from 1989 to 1995) and The Tonight Show (since 2014). He has received 21 Primetime Emmy Awards from 98 nominations, holding the record as the most nominated individual in the award show's history. Early life Lorne David Lipowitz was born on November 17, 1944, to Florence (née Becker) and Henry Abraham Lipowitz, on a kibbutz in the then British mandate of Palestine. His Jewish family immigrated to Toronto when he was an infant. Michaels and his two younger siblings were raised in Toronto; he attended Forest Hill Collegiate Institute. He graduated from University College, Toronto, where he majored in English, in 1966.