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Lorne Michaels (born Lorne David Lipowitz; November 17, 1944) is a Canadian and American television and film producer, comedian, screenwriter and director. He created and produced Saturday Night Live (1975–1980, since 1985) 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 24 Primetime Emmy Awards from 112 nominations, holding the record as the most nominated individual in the award show's history. == Early life == Lorne David Lipowitz was born to a Jewish family in Toronto, Ontario, on November 17, 1944, to Florence (née Becker) (1915–2001) and Abraham Lipowitz (1908–1959), who worked as a furrier. Several sources incorrectly state that he was born on a kibbutz in the then-British mandate of Palestine, and that his Jewish family immigrated to Toronto, Ontario, when he was an infant. This rumour originated from a Vanity Fair article written by close friend Paul Simon that was intended to be comedic. Michaels and his two younger siblings were raised in Toronto; he graduated from Forest Hill Collegiate Institute before attending University College at the University of Toronto, earning a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1966. == Career == === Early career === Michaels began his career as a writer and broadcaster for CBC Radio, working with partner Hart Pomerantz. He and Pomerantz moved to Los Angeles from Toronto in 1968 to work as writers for Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show. In the same year, the duo released a comedy LP entitled The Comedy of Hart & Lorne. At around the same time, when he was 23 years of age, comedian Frank Shuster and his wife, the parents of Michaels's then-wife, Rosie Shuster, recommended that he discard his typically Jewish surname in order to help facilitate his success in the entertainment industry. As a replacement, he settled on the Anglo-sounding name Michaels (perhaps, Pomerantz has speculated, in homage to the director Mike Nichols, whose work Michaels greatly admired), and Pomerantz, who was also a lawyer, assisted him in making this name change legal. The duo returned to Canada to star in The Hart and Lorne Terrific Hour, a series of comedy specials that ran on CBC in the early 1970s. Michaels returned to the United States in 1973 to write for The Burns and Schreiber Comedy Hour. This brought him to the attention of Lily Tomlin who hired him to produce a series of specials, the first of which won an Emmy. Michaels credits his work with Tomlin for giving him the credibility needed for NBC to hire him to create Saturday Night Live. === Saturday Night Live === In 1975, Michaels created (with fellow NBC employee Dick Ebersol and president of the network Herb Schlosser) the television show NBC's Saturday Night, which in 1977 changed its name to Saturday Night Live (initially there was a name conflict with an ABC show titled Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell, which debuted September 20, 1975, and wa
