Time Quote by Lorne Michaels

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

Even the most powerful people at a given point in terms of class, will all play by the same rules.

— Lorne Michaels

Yeah, I love Los Angeles.

— Lorne Michaels

It's better when they laugh, isn't it?

— Lorne Michaels

There are things in low comedy that make people uncomfortable, and there are things in high comedy that make people bored.

— Lorne Michaels

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

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

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

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

I don’t tweet for a very simple reason, which is that I drink.

— Lorne Michaels

We make fun of our leaders.

— Lorne Michaels

“The show doesn’t go on because it’s ready; it goes on because it’s 11:30.”

— Lorne Michaels