Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away and other things begin to emerge and you take way bigger risks. — Lorne Michaels Copy Share Image
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… — Lorne Michaels Copy Share Image
Even the most powerful people at a given point in terms of class, will all play by the same rules. — Lorne Michaels Copy Share Image
My role is to support it, protect it to the extent that I can, and encourage it. I have a regular job in New… — Lorne Michaels Copy Share Image
There are things in low comedy that make people uncomfortable, and there are things in high comedy that make people bored. — Lorne Michaels Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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,… — Lorne Michaels Copy Share Image
People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people… — Lorne Michaels Copy Share Image
Some people, their whole lives, are just injustice collectors. They’re going to find new injustices every day. That’s what they do, and that’s what… — Lorne Michaels Copy Share Image
