Canadian - Producer | November 17, 1944 -
To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.
Lorne Michaels
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Yeah, I love Los Angeles.
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I think Samantha Bee is doing a really good show.
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'Saturday Night Live' has always been, you know, non-partisan - whoever's in power should probably be challenged.
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There's nothing that sells stuff like television. Nothing.
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Tearing up a picture of the Pope comes under the heading of a Comedy Killer. It kind of breaks the spirit of the evening.
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All saints are selfish.
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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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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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I'm always very fearful when academics get ahold of comedy. Comedy is such a clear thing - people laugh, or they don't laugh. It's involuntary. I'm not saying it can't be scrutinized, it's just that they take the enjoyment out of it.
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We make fun of our leaders.
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When Sinead O'Connor tore up the picture of the Pope, you could hear a pin drop. I didn't know it was coming, obviously, because at dress, she had held up a picture of Balkan orphans, which I thought was really meaningful and what she wanted to do.
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