Kennedy Centre Honours / en Lorne Michaels receives Kennedy Centre Honor /celebrates/lorne-michaels-receives-kennedy-centre-honor <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Lorne Michaels receives Kennedy Centre Honor</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/community" hreflang="en">Community</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2021-12-06T16:45:37-05:00" title="Monday, December 6, 2021 - 16:45" class="datetime">Mon, 12/06/2021 - 16:45</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/alumni" hreflang="en">Alumni</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/alumni" hreflang="en">Alumni</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/hart-house" hreflang="en">Hart House</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/kennedy-centre-honours" hreflang="en">Kennedy Centre Honours</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/university-college" hreflang="en">University College</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/2023-04/GettyImages-1357380519-crop.jpeg" width="750" height="500" alt="Lorne Michaels"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Honoree Lorne Michaels attends the 44th Kennedy Center Honors at The Kennedy Center on December 05, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images)</p> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Alumnus&nbsp;<strong>Lorne Michaels,</strong>&nbsp;best known as the creator and executive producer of&nbsp;<em>Saturday Night Live</em>, has been recognized by the John F. Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.kennedy-center.org/artists/m/ma-mn/lorne-michaels/">a 44th Kennedy Centre Honor&nbsp;</a>for lifetime artistic achievement.</p> <p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/kennedy-center-honors/2021/12/05/29884910-5395-11ec-9267-17ae3bde2f26_story.html"><em>The Washington Post</em>&nbsp;reported&nbsp;</a>that U.S. President Joe Biden&nbsp;told Michaels,&nbsp;“If you can’t laugh at yourself, you’re in real trouble. And you make me laugh at myself a lot.”</p> <p>Michaels graduated from the 91Թ in 1966, having served as a writer and director with UC Follies and Hart House Theatre, and launched SNL nine years later. Over the years, the award-winning screenwriter has also produced feature films such as&nbsp;<em>Mean Girls</em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Wayne’s World</em>&nbsp;and served as executive producer of television shows such as&nbsp;<em>Kids in the Hall</em>,&nbsp;<em>30 Rock</em>,&nbsp;<em>The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon</em>, and&nbsp;<em>Late Night with Seth Meyers</em>&nbsp;among others. He has received more Emmy® nominations than any other individual – 93 so far.</p> <p>Named a Companion of the Order of Canada in 2018, Michaels was also awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, a Peabody Award in 2013 and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humour in 2004. He received an honorary degree from 91Թ in 2002. In a video tribute posted on the Kennedy Centre site before the celebration,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsdo-LcTHEE">musician Paul McCartney congratulated Michaels</a>&nbsp;on this latest honour.</p> <p>“You’ve done so much in the world of humour, TV, film – the list is endless – so you really deserve this,” McCartney says. “And, more than that, I’d really like to thank you for being such a good friend over all these years. I love you. You’re a good man.”</p> <h3><a href="/news/live-new-york-its-u-t-alum-and-saturday-night-live-producer-lorne-michaels">Read more about Lorne Michaels</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Mon, 06 Dec 2021 21:45:37 +0000 lanthierj 301079 at