Lorne Michaels
Production · Acting · Writing · Crew · Creator
Born November 17, 1944, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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, 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 24 Primetime Emmy Awards from 112 nominations, holding the record as the most nominated individual in the award show's history. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lorne Michaels, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
- 2026Marcello Hernández: American Boy — Thanks
- Saturday Night Live UK — Executive Producer, Creator
- 2025Downey Wrote That — Self, Executive Producer
- 2025SNL50: The Homecoming Concert — Self, Executive Producer, Writer
- 2025Sarah Squirm: Live + in the Flesh — Executive Producer
- 2024An SNL Thanksgiving — (archive footage)
- 2024Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked — Thanks
- 2024Mean Girls — Producer
- 2024Nate Bargatze's Nashville Christmas — Executive Producer
- Bupkis — Executive Producer
- Bust Down — Executive Producer
- 2022Michael Bublé's Christmas in the City — Executive Producer
- 2022Miley's New Year's Eve Party — Executive Producer
- The Kids in the Hall — Executive Producer
- Kenan — Executive Producer
- MacGruber — Executive Producer
- 2021Miley's New Year's Eve Party Hosted by Miley Cyrus and Pete Davidson — Executive Producer
- Saturday Morning All Star Hits! — Executive Producer
- Schmigadoon! — Executive Producer
- That Damn Michael Che — Executive Producer
- 202030 Rock: A One-Time Special — Executive Producer
- Mapleworth Murders — Executive Producer
- 2020Vampires vs. the Bronx — Producer
- Alien News Desk — Executive Producer
- Los Espookys — Executive Producer
- Miracle Workers — Executive Producer
- 2019My Favorite Shapes by Julio Torres — Executive Producer
- Shrill — Executive Producer
- The Other Two — Executive Producer
- A.P. Bio — Executive Producer
- 2018Steve Martin and Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life — Executive Producer
- Detroiters — Executive Producer
- 2017Sandy Wexler — Testimonial
- 2017The David S. Pumpkins Halloween Special — Executive Producer
- 2016Brother Nature — Producer
- 2016Masterminds — Producer
- 2016Michael Che Matters — Executive Producer
- 2016Whiskey Tango Foxtrot — Producer
- 2015Adele: Live in New York City 2015 — Executive Producer
- Documentary Now! — Executive Producer
- 2015Inside Out — Thanks
- 2015Staten Island Summer — Producer
- Late Night with Seth Meyers — Executive Producer
- 2014The Maya Rudolph Show — Executive Producer
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Executive Producer
- 2012The Guilt Trip — Producer
- 2011Inside Portlandia — Self, Executive Producer
- Portlandia — Executive Producer
- 2011Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10 — Producer
- Up All Night — Executive Producer
- 2010MacGruber — Producer
- Late Night with Jimmy Fallon — Creator
- 2009Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler — Producer
- 2008Baby Mama — Producer
- Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday — Executive Producer, Creator
- 2008To Love and Die — Executive Producer
- To Love and Die — Producer
- 2007Hot Rod — Producer
- 2007Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation — Self, Executive Producer
- 30 Rock — Executive Producer
- Sons & Daughters — Executive Producer
- 2005Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dan Aykroyd — Executive Producer
- 2004Mean Girls — Producer
- Miley's New Year's Eve Party — Producer
- 2003Can't Buy Me Lunch: Another Look at The Rutles — Executive Producer
- 2003Lost in Translation — Thanks
- The Tracy Morgan Show — Producer
- 2002NBC 75th Anniversary Special — Writer, Executive Producer
- 2002Saturday Night Live: The Best of Will Ferrell — Executive Producer
- The Colin Quinn Show — Creator
- 200150 Years of NBC Late Night — Executive Producer
- 2001Enigma — Producer
- 2000The Ladies Man — Producer
- 1999SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler — Executive Producer
- 1999Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special — Executive Producer
- 1999Superstar — Producer
- 1998A Night at the Roxbury — Producer
- 1998Bad Boys of Saturday Night Live — Executive Producer
- 1998Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman — Executive Producer
- 1996Black Sheep — Producer
- 1996Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy — Producer
- 1996The Kids In The Hall: Laughing Ourselves Sick
- 1995Stuart Saves His Family — Producer
- 1995Tommy Boy — Producer
- 1994Lassie — Producer
- 1993Coneheads — Producer
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Executive Producer, Creator
- 1993Wayne's World 2 — Producer
- 1992Frosty Returns — Executive Producer
- 1992Wayne's World — Producer
- 1991Lookwell — Producer
- Lookwell — Producer
- 1991Saturday Night Live: Halloween Special — Executive Producer
- 1990The Earth Day Special — Executive Producer
- 1989Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary — Self, Executive Producer
- The Kids in the Hall — Executive Producer
- 1988Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel — Executive Producer
- 1986¡Three Amigos! — Screenplay, Producer
- 1984Nothing Lasts Forever — Producer
- 1984The Day Before — Producer
- 1984The Discreet Charm of the Diplomacy — Producer
- 1983Neil Young in Berlin — Producer
- 1983The Coneheads — Executive Producer
- Late Night with David Letterman — Creator
- 1982Simon & Garfunkel: The Concert in Central Park — Executive Music Producer, Executive Producer
- 1981Steve Martin's Best Show Ever — Producer, Writer
- 1980Gilda Live — Writer, Producer
- 1979Bob & Ray, Jane, Laraine & Gilda — Executive Producer
- 1979Mr. Mike's Mondo Video — Executive Producer
- 1978The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash — Sleazy Merchandiser, Executive Producer
- 1978The Things We Did Last Summer — Producer
- 1977The Paul Simon Special — Producer, Writer
- 1976The Beach Boys: It's OK — Writer, Producer
- 1976The Beach Boys: It's OK — Writer, Producer
- Saturday Night Live — Self - Cameo (uncredited), Self (uncredited), Interviewer (voice) (uncredited), Self - Producer (uncredited), Peter Aaron (voice) (uncredited), Self (voice) (uncredited), Writer, Executive Producer, Creator
- 1973Lily — Writer, Producer
- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In — Writer
- A Chris Farley Story — Producer
- Bag Man — Producer
- Jonty — Producer
- The Big Goodbye — Producer
- Untitled Lou Gehrig Biopic — Producer
- Worst Man — Producer
Appearances as themselves (31)
- 20269/11: United We Stand -- 25 Years Later — Self (archive footage)
- 2026Lorne — Self
- 2025I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not — Self
- 2025Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music — Self - Executive Producer
- SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night — Self
- 2024In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon — Self
- 2024Will & Harper — Self
- The Kardashians — Self
- 2022The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks — Self
- The Story of Late Night — Self
- 2020Belushi — Self (archive footage)
- 2019Cracked Up — Self
- 2018Love, Gilda — Self
- Norm Macdonald Has a Show — Self - Guest
- 2016The Last Laugh — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2015I Am Chris Farley — Self
- 2015Live from New York! — Self
- 2014The Last Impresario — Self
- Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee — Self
- 2012Paul Simon: Under African Skies — Self
- 2010Saturday Night — Self
- 2010Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again — Self
- 2006Laser Cats! — Self
- Iconoclasts — Self
- 2005Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live — Self
- 2005Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found — Self
- 2000Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation — Self
- 1999Man on the Moon — Self (uncredited)
- Mark Twain Prize — Self
- 1994The Story of Lassie — Self
- 1986The Canadian Conspiracy — Self