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Article: 'SNL' Producer Wins Twain Prize
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- The Washington Post
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- June 16, 2004
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The Coneheads may get their due. The Kennedy Center announced
yesterday that Lorne Michaels, the longtime producer of "Saturday
Night Live," will receive this year's Mark Twain Prize for American
Humor.
Michaels's selection marks a shift away from the prize's first six
years, which recognized larger-than-life comedians whose performances
in concert and on television made them visible icons. Michaels, 59,
has been an innovator behind the scenes, starting with his stint as a
writer for "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In." But his career will be
forever linked to "SNL," the longest-running and highest-rated weekly
late-night program in television history.
The show is Michaels's own school of ...