I’m incredibly proud of the show ‘Portlandia’ that I do, but it’s designed for an audience that just wants that and loves that. Lorne Michaels Read Quote
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. Lorne Michaels Read Quote
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. Lorne Michaels Read Quote
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. Lorne Michaels Read Quote
There are things in low comedy that make people uncomfortable, and there are things in high comedy that make people bored. Lorne Michaels Read Quote
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. Lorne Michaels Read Quote
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. Lorne Michaels Read Quote
