Toronto-born Lorne Michaels accepts the Career Achievement Award at the 24th Annual Television Critics Association Awards in Beverly Hills July 19, 2008. television columnist Los Angeles–The Television Critics Association may have been a bit premature last weekend when it awarded its annual "career achievement" prize to Toronto-born producer Lorne Michaels. He still hasn't finished earning it. Still going strong after three decades on the air, Michaels and Saturday Night Live have found and fostered several generations of comic genius, from original Not Ready for Prime Time Players Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd and Gilda Radner, on through Eddie Murphy, Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Mike Myers, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey ... The process is undeniably cyclical; entire casts have come and gone...
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