Editing Lorne Michaels (section)

===Early career===
Michaels began his career as a writer and broadcaster for [[CBC Radio]], working with partner [[Hart Pomerantz]].<ref name="ggbio">{{cite web|title=Award Recipients: Lorne Michaels 2006 Lifetime Artistic Achievement (Broadcasting)|url=http://ggpaa.ca/award-recipients/2006/michaels-lorne.aspx|website=Governor General's Performing Arts Awards|access-date=August 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170826113415/http://ggpaa.ca/award-recipients/2006/michaels-lorne.aspx|archive-date=August 26, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> He and Pomerantz moved to Los Angeles from Toronto in 1968 to work as writers for ''[[Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In]]'' and ''[[Phyllis Diller|The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show]]''. They returned to Canada to star in ''[[The Hart and Lorne Terrific Hour]]'', a series of comedy specials that ran on [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]] in the early 1970s.<ref name=Smith/><ref>{{Cite news |title=Remembering 'Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In' |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>

Michaels returned to the United States in 1973 to write for ''The Burns and Schreiber Comedy Hour''. This brought him to the attention of [[Lily Tomlin]] who hired him to produce a series of specials, the [[Lily (1973 special)|first of which]] won an [[Emmy]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Schwartz |first1=Lana |title=Inside Lorne Michaels' Friendship With Lily Tomlin |url=https://www.thelist.com/632294/inside-lorne-michaels-friendship-with-lily-tomlin/ |website=TheList.com |access-date=18 February 2025 |date=13 October 2021}}</ref> Michaels credits his work with Tomlin for giving him the credibility needed for NBC to hire him to create ''Saturday Night Live''.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Love |first1=Matthew |title=10 Things We Learned from Lorne Michaels' WTF Interview |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/10-things-we-learned-from-lorne-michaels-wtf-interview-49734/3/ |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |access-date=18 February 2025 |date=9 November 2015}}</ref>