1970 Howard Cosell, ABC's Wide World of Sports

1975 Howard Cosell debuts ABC's Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell, presents the new, young Billy Crystal, (Howard Cosell's rent boy). Short run, cancelled.

1975 Lorne Michaels debuts NBC's Saturday Night Live

1976 Billy Crystal cast as first homosexual in ABC's Soap

1980s Billy Crystal to Saturday Night Live

I think Lorne Michaels was involved with the Second City or used it more like the minor leagues to scout talent for SNL. As it turned out Second City was far superior to SNL.

From the Second City website.

It was on Second City’s stage where he debuted “Motivational Speaker,” the character he named for his real-life friend, a soft-spoken Catholic priest named Matt Foley, and would go on to take to SNL. It was at Second City that Lorne Michaels discovered Farley and hired him to join the cast of SNL the spring of 1990.

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Michaels appeared in an HBO mockumentary titled The Canadian Conspiracy about the supposed subversion of the United States by Canadian-born media personalities, with Lorne Greene as the leader of the conspiracy. Michaels was identified as the anointed successor to Greene.

this is like 'basic instinct' ... what you think i would do a movie about what I'm doing?

he offered the Beatles $3,000 (a deliberately paltry sum) to reunite on the show.[20] He later increased his offer to $3,200

occults numbers much?

multiple sources have said he was born in Toronto, Ontario,[5][6] while others state he was born on a kibbutz in British-mandate Palestine (now Israel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorne_Michaels