Lorne Michaels
It would be difficult to overestimate the impact that Canadian writer-producer Lorne Michaels had on modern American TV comedy and rock music programming. Perhaps more than any other figure, he was responsible for mainstreaming so-called countercultural values – e.g., jokes about sex, drugs and rock'n'roll; left-leaning politics – through that most pervasive of mediums. As the Emmy-winning… See Full Lorne Michaels Biography
