Canadian - Producer | November 17, 1944 -
People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.
Lorne Michaels
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Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.
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One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.
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You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.
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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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All babies are ugly unless they're your baby.
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I grew up in a time where on things like 'The Red Skeleton Show' or even to a certain extent on 'The Carol Burnett Show,' people wrote in the breakouts or ad-libs. They were scripted to look spontaneous. So I always had a dislike of that kind of thing.
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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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You can't be perfect for 90 minutes.
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Could I get a friggin' Hot Pocket around here?
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It's better when they laugh, isn't it?
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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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