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Live From New York: It’s a Saturday
Night 50th Season SNL Jewish Salute
to 30 Rock’s Studio 8H; Historic
Comedic Cue Cards Laughingly in
Hand.
By: Mark Schneider - Past President
Take One: One never really knows where a 13year old Bar or Bat Mitzvah will end up career-wise.
Take Lorne David Lipowitz, for example. He grew
up in the Toronto Canada Jewish community,
becoming a Bar Mitzvah in 1957 at the Beth Sholom
Synagogue.
Eleven years later, he moved to Los Angeles to
be a writer for NBC-TV’s Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.
Cut to October 11th, 1975 when a 29-year old (who
legally changed his last name from Lipowitz to
Michaels when he was 14) was hired to put together
a Saturday night variety show appropriately titled
NBC’s Saturday Night. It was live but couldn’t be
called SNL thanks to a legendary Jewish
sportscaster’s ABC-TV’s program titled
