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" 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

Know

Thought

" 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. "

" All saints are selfish. "

Lorne Michaels

Selfish

Saints

" To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container. "

Lorne Michaels

Problem

Creativity

" We make fun of our leaders. "

" 'Saturday Night Live' has always been, you know, non-partisan - whoever's in power should probably be challenged. "

" 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 laugh. "

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

Lorne Michaels

Better

Laugh

" 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. "

" One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time. "

" There's nothing that sells stuff like television. Nothing. "

Lorne Michaels

Television

Nothing

" You can tell a lot from someone's eyes. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You can't be perfect for 90 minutes. "

" Yeah, I love Los Angeles. "

" All babies are ugly unless they're your baby. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Could I get a friggin' Hot Pocket around here? "

" Tearing up a picture of the Pope comes under the heading of a Comedy Killer. It kind of breaks the spirit of the evening. "

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

" I think Samantha Bee is doing a really good show. "