Lorne Michaels
Canadian-American television producer and screenwriterWikipedia
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Nov 9, 2026
Betty CorrelloGUEST
For those who don't really remember what the world was like before 2020...
Betty CorrelloGUEST
There was there used to be a sort of path to becoming a professional comedian, which was you took improv classes and then you at a theater and then you got really good and you joined a house team and then maybe you got really you got a lot of local buzz and then you could start taking classes at UCB in New York and then maybe you'd get on a UCB team and then maybe Lorne Michaels would notice you and then you were cast on SNL.
Betty CorrelloGUEST
Yeah.
Betty CorrelloGUEST
None of that exists anymore.
Charles RempelHOST
The season premiere started with members of the New York Police Department and the Fire Department of New York and Rudy Giuliani declaring that New York City and Saturday Night Live will go on like always.
Charles RempelHOST
Lorne Michaels asked the mayor, can we be funny? And the mayor responded, why start now? That's a good joke.
Charles RempelHOST
That was the high watermark for Rudy Giuliani.
Charles RempelHOST
Yeah, I think
Alan SepinwallHOST
But it's just...
Alan SepinwallHOST
I just it needs to be acknowledged that in the fall of 2006, the one of these that everyone was excited about was Studio 60 and 30 Rock was, oh, isn't it nice that NBC is letting Lorne Michaels give Tina Fey a show? Mm
Kathryn VanArendonkHOST
hmm.
Alan SepinwallHOST
And somehow like Studio 60 was one of the great disasters of all time.
Michael LenociHOST
I'm mad
Sarah OreckGUEST
at Lorne Michael.
Sarah OreckGUEST
I'm mad at all.
Sarah OreckGUEST
But being mad at a
Conan O'BrienSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And he looked at me and he nudged me and he went, don't worry kid, they're pretty kind of eclairs.
Johnny MacHOST
And Conan, the former SNL writer, was asked, will Lorne Michaels ever hang it up?
Conan O'BrienSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I don't think Lorne will ever leave.
Conan O'BrienSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Yeah, really? And if anyone can figure out a way, you know, there are these tech billionaires out there figuring out ways to live.
Martin QuibellHOST
I know that he used to do yoga with John Eastman.
Ed ChenHOST
Well, and he still does yoga with Lorne Michaels.
Martin QuibellHOST
Right, yeah.
Ed ChenHOST
Stella wants to get shirts for Paul and Lauren with the specific motto, Yoga Boys.
7 MINS LATER
Paul McCartneySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Lorne had come on the telly the week before, and John told me about it.
Paul McCartneySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He said, oh, Saturday Night Live, I love this, you know.
Paul McCartneySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I said, oh, did you hear that Lorne Michaels had done it? And he explained the thing to me.
Paul McCartneySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And John said, we should go down there now.
Zaki HasanHOST
She was married to Don Ulmeier, who was former NBC head.
Zaki HasanHOST
He took over SNL after Lorne Michaels and before Lorne Michaels, after the Gene Dumanian era.
Brian HallHOST
Right, right, right, right, yeah, yeah.
Zaki HasanHOST
But I mean, extremely talented, very funny.
Kody GreenGUEST
It brought more people to my page, and it allowed me to spread more genuine awareness.
Andrew GurzaHOST
So my next question is, when are you calling up Lorne Michaels and being like, hey, listen, you need a schizophrenic host for the show?
Kody GreenGUEST
That's what I think they should do.
Kody GreenGUEST
I was like, I did a response to their joke, and that video also went viral of me making a joke about their joke.
Matt D'AvellaHOST
That was going to be my thing that gave me the edge up over you.
Matt D'AvellaHOST
Have you thought about putting your resume on a cake and sending that? To who? To Lorne Michaels.
Matt D'AvellaHOST
Yeah.
Matt D'AvellaHOST
No, I'm just kidding.
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