Awards & Winners

Mike Lazzo

Date of Birth 11-December-1958
Place of Birth Atlanta
(Georgia, United States of America, Fulton County, Area code 470, Area code 678, Area code 404)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Michael Lazzo, Citizen Long Hair, Mickey LaLameman, Bwah-Wahhah!, Stinky, Dick Lazzo, Lazzo, Michael Harriet Lazzo
Profession Television Producer, Screenwriter
Michael Lazzo, is a television producer and the senior executive vice president in charge of Adult Swim at Williams Street. After he dropped out of High School at age 15, Mike Lazzo was roommates with Barry Mills, the creator of TNT's The Rudy and Gogo World Famous Cartoon Show. He began his career working in the mailroom of TBS. He went to program TBS' animation block, running daily from 4:30-6PM Eastern time until 1993, when he became the first programmer in Cartoon Network's history. Mike Lazzo began his career working in the mailroom of TBS.In 1994 he helped create the first animated late night talk show Space Ghost Coast to Coast for the Cartoon Network. Then in 1995, Lazzo's newly named production company, Ghost Planet Industries, produced the first spin off from Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, Cartoon Planet which debuted on TBS, but later moved to Cartoon Network the following year. In 1997, Lazzo and GPI began production on Toonami, an afternoon block of action cartoons on Cartoon Network. In 2004, he served as the producer for Miguzi, another afternoon block of action programming, this time aimed at a younger audience. In 1999, Ghost Planet Industries changed its name to Williams Street and the following year the studio started developing more non-Space Ghost-related comedy cartoons aimed at adult audiences. The Brak Show, Sealab 2021, and Aqua Teen Hunger Force all premiered on Cartoon Network unannounced in the early mornings of December 2000, almost a year before [adult swim] officially premiered in September 2001. Keith Crofford has served as Lazzo's co-executive producer since 1994.

Awards by Mike Lazzo

Check all the awards nominated and won by Mike Lazzo.

2014


Nominations 2014 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class - Short-format Live-Action Entertainment Programs Childrens Hospital
Adult Swim
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short-format Animation Robot Chicken
Born Again Virgin Christmas Special

2013


Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short-format Animation Robot Chicken
Robot Chicken's ATM Christmas Special

2012


Nominations 2012 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short-format Animation Robot Chicken
Fight Club Paradise

2011


Nominations 2011 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program Robot Chicken
Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short-format Animation Robot Chicken
Robot Chicken's DP Christmas Special

2010


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short-format Animation
Honored for : Robot Chicken

Nominations 2010 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short-format Animation Robot Chicken
Full-Assed Christmas Special

2009


Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour) Robot Chicken
Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II

2008


Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour) Robot Chicken
Robot Chicken: Star Wars

2007


Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour) Robot Chicken
Lust For Puppets