Tearing up a picture of the Pope comes under the heading of a Comedy Killer. It kind of breaks the spirit of the evening. Lorne Michaels Read Quote
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. Lorne Michaels Read Quote
Saturday Night Live’ has always been, you know, non-partisan – whoever’s in power should probably be challenged. Lorne Michaels Read Quote
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. Lorne Michaels Read Quote
