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4 unusual facts about Lorne Michaels


Lorne Michaels

She also appeared in a sketch about underage drinking when Zac Efron hosted the show.

Lorne has given money to the campaigns of Senators Barack Obama, Chris Dodd, Sonny Landham, and John McCain over the years.

According to an interview in Playboy magazine, John Lennon and Paul McCartney happened to be in New York City that night and saw the show.

Program X

James W. Nichol and Mavor Moore wrote other episodes of Program X, while directors during the series included David Cronenberg, George Jonas and Lorne Michaels.


Rob Pearlstein

He has sold screenplays and television pilots to major studios and networks such as Universal Pictures, Focus Features, Jerry Bruckheimer Television, and Lorne Michaels's Broadway Video Productions, and has written episodes for the NBC series Medium and the Fox series The Inside.

The Church Lady

Dana Carvey recalls that he was prompted by executive producer Lorne Michaels to introduce the character (when it was still in SNL rehearsals) at a Neil Young concert at Madison Square Garden, which Church Lady interrupted, fussing and fuming: "What are we doing here? What's all this noise?"


see also

Jack Handey

For several years Handey worked on other television projects: the Canadian sketch series Bizarre in 1980; the 1980 TV special Steve Martin: Comedy Is Not Pretty; and Lorne Michaels' short-lived sketch show on NBC called The New Show in 1984.

The Canadian Conspiracy

Much is made of Leslie Nielsen's brother Erik, then Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, of the green card being in actuality named after Lorne Greene, and of Lorne Michaels' youth indicating his grooming as Lorne Greene's successor.