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>> in prime time. >> amy poehler, seth meyers. kristen wiig, the guy who plays me, fred armisen, andy samberg, and the creator, lorne michaels. they're here from the set in one of the late night's running shows. if you don't know what n"saturdy night live" is, you're not from this planet. next on "larry king live." tomorrow night, "saturday night live" will celebrate the beginning of its 36th year at 11:30 eastern time. we have five outstanding cast members and the exec producer

with us. we're in studio 8 h. our guests are lorne michaels, amy poehler, who we hear will host the show tomorrow night. she's the three time award nominee, seth meyers is the anchor of weekend update and the head writer of this program, the emmy writer, kristen wiig, you know her as nancy pelosi. fred armisen, you know him as me or joy behar, and andy samberg. >> how did this idea get conceived? >> i think it got conceived because herb schlasser who was

writing nbc felt there should be production back in new york. he had a strong affection for live programming and in the glory days of new york television. >> "the tonight show" had been on. >> yes. i was down stairs in 6 b with johnny carson. they wanted a new show. >> larry: for saturdays. >> the time period, at that point, was carson was best of carson which was reruns of the tonight show. i don't think johnny was happy with those shows, so they decided to do a new show, and dick ambersol had left sports at abc. >> larry: what were you doing? >> i was working with lilley tomlin on writing and producing on her shows, both at cbs and abc. i had begun at nbc with the phyllis diller show and

laugh-in, but all in california. >> larry: "saturday night live," what a history. amy, how did you get on to the show? >> well, i auditioned like everyone here did. and i had some friends that were on the show already, of course grew up watching it, so and then i just met lorne in an undisclosed location and handed him an envelope filled with $50,000 and here i am. >> larry: was the audition just with him? >> it used to be, then hr stepped in. >> good job. you should write comedy. >> it's really a -- it's on this stage, and you kind of can't see anyone out there. >> larry: do they tell you to do something or do they give you something? >> you do characters and impressions. what is it now? you have five minutes. >> larry: how did you get on the show? >> i was doing a two person show

in chicago, a sketch improv show, i was lucky enough that somebody saw the show and i sent in a couple audition tapes and got in for the same process we all went through. >> larry: were you nervous? >> i was terrified. i remember when they put the mike on me, i kept asking if it was on. i didn't want him to leave because i knew once he walked away, i would have to do it. >> larry: do you hold in your mind, lorne, the fact that they are nervous? >> yeah, you're looking for a quality that has to be evident in the audition. they have to have a certain amount of comfort being on a stage, because they're about to go into -- >> larry: live television. >> as chaotic an experience as you can get. if you're not poised and ready for it, you can get knocked over. >> larry: kristen, what were you doing at the time? >> 50,000.

it was later. >> i was at the groundlings in los angeles. my manager talked about me about making a tape. we sent it in and auditioned here, the most nervous i've ever been in my life, because i don't do -- i hadn't done any standup or hadn't done a lot of performing myself on the stage, so i was terrified. >> larry: fred, how did they find you? or how did you find them? >> i was doing standup comedy in los angeles. we also sent in tapes. i auditioned right here. i remember it was like really nerve-racking but when we got the phone call, i saved it as best call ever. since then, i've just transferred that number over and over. it was exciting. it was great to be on the stage. >> larry: did you do imitations. >> i did some impressions and

some characters. yeah. it was a blur. >> larry: do you say in your mind sometime lorne, this is it, he's definitely going to get it? >> yeah. >> larry: it's in your head. >> of course. >> there was construction so i auditioned on a side stage, which really took a lot of pressure off, because this is kind of like a b league thing. i kind of just let it rip. >> larry: a break? >> i still threw up before it. >> larry: you're going to host tomorrow night? >> yeah, can you believe it. you seem like you can't believe it. >> larry: back on the stage, it's a whole different venue. >> i don't know. i'm so incredibly honored and privileged to be back anytime to do anything on this show, but to be able to host is a whopper. >> larry: how was she selected, lorne? >> no idea. we have four new casts this

year. it's an election year. just one of the most solid choice i could find. here she is. >> larry: how do you feel about that, seth? >> i'm thrilled. it's very exciting. one of the joys are writing for the show is with the host, you always have these different unknown quantities, but at the same time, there's nothing nicer than it being a known quantity. all the writers are happy that amy is back. i think the cast members are excited. >> larry: some day it will be you, kristen? >> that would be great. >> amy has changed. don't get me wrong. she's a lot harder to work with. >> larry: a little stuckup. >> i don't appreciate eye contact from people that are younger than me. >> larry: you have no peers, is that it? >> yeah, i look around the landscape and i'm like where are my peers. >> you said meryl streep.

>> i said maybe streep, i said if she's lucky. >> larry: are you happy for amy's success? >> yeah. >> larry: you won't be after what she just said. >> no. amy is beloved by all. that's her secret move. no one doesn't like her. >> i can name a few. >> i would say it's inspiring to see. i came in when amy was in the middle of her run. i would say her and seth, maybe more than anyone, really looked out for me and took me under their wing and made sure i was okay. >> larry: why, fred, is he staring at you? >> i was showing him the ropes. >> he did a lot of hazing. >> 70 really kind of limp hazing. >> but i accepted you. >> i appreciate that. >> this year, for the first time. >> i'm really excited for amy. >> larry: we'll be back with the exec producer and the cast. don't go away.

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finally meet me ♪ ♪ how does it go eskimo ♪ how you feel eskimo ♪ tell me you how you feel >> larry: was she a good sport? >> anyone who comes on the show is already a great sport. >> larry: are you going to play obama early? >> we'll see how the week goes, what lorne decides. >> larry: do you have any trepidation about playing him? >> no, i enjoy playing him. it's always fun to see what angle the writers have on it. >> larry: do you have impact with the writers? can you say i'm comfortable with this? >> i trust them a lot. they never presented me with anything i wasn't comfortable with. >> it's also, here the cast writes as well and fred and amy and andy contribute as well.

they take it as peers. >> larry: kristen, your most famous impressions are the speaker of the house, pelosi, kathie lee gifford and suzzy ormen. what's the trick of suze ormen. >> she's very energetic and passionate about everything she talks about. for me, just finding that one thing in a person i'm doing an impression of and really just blowing it up to make it more of a character than the actual person. >> that is what my hairdresser has named my hair do, the cut back, because she only cuts the back. >> larry: do you study her a lot? >> yeah, i watched her for years. i obviously make her a little crazier than shes. i've met her and she likes it. she was actually in the audience one time when i did her, which was a little scary. >> the easiest person to pick out in the audience.

>> you can see her out there, the blond hair. >> larry: you had a fight with mark wahlberg, right? >> fight is a little harsh. >> larry: what did you have with him? >> i did an impression with him and they asked him about it. >> larry: how do you impersonate mark wahlberg? >> he reminds me of a lot of guys i grew up with. >> you're a donkey, i like that. you eat apples, right. >> there is somebody like that that you wouldn't think it's easy to do an impression of. the minute andy started doing it, you're like that's how you do an impression of somebody. >> larry: impression is more not in the voice so much as in the manner, right? >> yeah, and grab the personality. >> but, i mean, he came on and did a thing with me about it as well. >> larry: it was all in jest. >> i wouldn't say like besty

besties, but close. >> larry: you did hillary. >> right. >> larry: easy or hard. >> i found hard. i will say that there's a difference between, like, you know, someone like darrell hammond is a premier impressionist that can get everything down to the last drop. then there are times when you are just trying to do someone and you want to -- like kristen was saying get a funny take on it. it doesn't necessarily need to sound exactly like them. you want to create a character of who they are. i tried to do that with her. because hillary -- she's kind of -- she didn't have anything that stuck out voice wise that i could hang on to. >> larry: you don't play it funny. you have to play her? i mean you're serious about it? >> well, you play it hopefully as real in the moment as you can. jim wrote a lot of hillary's

pieces, his take on her which fluctuated during the many years, the game that was fun to play was how she had to hold it together when she was becoming so frustrated or there was a lot of stuff underneath. i thought that was a great take. >> larry: do you always try to begin with politics. >> i feel like that's the best place for it in the show. it picks up a different momentum. >> larry: do you know how we're opening tomorrow? >> we don't know yet. >> we might not know as late as friday. >> larry: change it on friday? >> it will depend, because anything topical, the nightly shows probably -- if it happened on a monday or tuesday, the nightly shows would have probably beaten it to death by then. our take has to be original in some way, so we have to find a way into it that seems to say something more. >> larry: i would guess you may do the candidate in delaware. we'll be right back after this.

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let's see kristen as the target lady, watch. >> a 50! it's legit! i get to put this under the tray. >> i'm sorry, i'm in a hurry. >> hey, you know what fertilizer is, right? >> excuse me. >> it's part dirt and part feces. it's my job to let you know what you're buying. you're buying a big bag of feces. >> larry: how do you find her? >> i actually did meet someone at a target that talked a little bit like that, but then i exaggerated it quite a bit. i did that character at the groundlings. she's one of the characters i auditioned with. >> larry: how did you find gilly. >> i play myself, really. >> this is the character, what you're doing now. >> larry: andy won an emmy for a

digital short with justin timberlake, which after we see this, i'm going to ask lorne how this ever got approved. ♪ wow you know it's christmas and my heart is open wide ♪ ♪ going to give you something so you know what's on my mind ♪ ♪ a gift for your special time ♪ take a look inside it's my [ bleep ] in a box ♪ >> i always forget what's in the box. >> it's always a surprise. >> larry: who came up with that? >> me and my two buddies. i think yurma had the initial idea. >> larry: did timberlake go for it right away. >> right away. he was blocking scenes and we started writing it and thought,

this will be good. we knew he had been up for doing a song because he liked the ones we had done with natalie portman. >> larry: how did you come up with the idea of digital shorts. >> there's a long history of short films on the show. when we came in, it was something we were well versed in because we had our own group and we had our own website and we had a couple of small pilot deals, so we kind of spent a lot of time making short films, specifically short music videos. we didn't get hire d for that. i got hired off my audition. they got hired on the writing packet. when we got here, we suggested, you know, we do this kind of stuff. is there a place for it? we talked to some of the producers about it. they said lorne would love that. we're looking for something to play while we change sets. so we went off and shot one on our own. i think the first one was with will forte.

it was called "let us." we tried one more that didn't work. the third one we tried was the narnia rap. lazy sunday ♪ we're about to take it to a dream world ♪ >> larry: is there someone upstairs at nbc who blue pencils stuff. >> we certainly do. >> larry: did you have any trouble getting that through? >> it was certainly discussed. the spirit of it is, it's much more about comedy than it is -- >> the censors made you use the box, right? >> larry: you weren't going to use the box. >> yeah, there was no box. >> larry: what did the cast think of that bit, fred. >> we loved it immediately. we were out on the floor for it. immediately. >> we won't see it until dress rehearsal. the nature of the show is -- i strongly encourage them to do a

digital short that week. i believe i mentioned it on monday. >> larry: when they came up with that though. >> my point is they have a very high standard. they think and then sometimes overthink. by the time they get started, it's quite often friday night. >> larry: did they lower the standard for that bit? >> no, i think it got an emmy. i think the entire academy enjoyed it. >> larry: we'll be back with more on the cast of "saturday night live." don't go away.

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♪ >> larry: we're back. we're honored to be in this place of honor. they ought to transport this to the smithsonian, along with our set. >> is it a package deal. >> larry: for longevity. seth and amy, they were great together as weekend update co-anchors. >> really, cdc, the next thing you want to give that should be giving to students give yourself a big nookie, come on. really. come on. >> larry: is that your bit, seth? >> it was both of ours, but i will give credit to andy was the one. i talk like that a lot. i'm incredulous about a lot of things. andy suggested i should put it in a segment. >> larry: your idea was really? >> i talk like that all the

time. >> it was born of his personality. my impression of seth is he would walk into a room about seth and go really, is this really happening. >> larry: did you go for it right away. >> oh, yeah, i was on board and could match incredulousty with you? >>. >> larry: is this a fun place to work? >> no. maybe before fred got here. >> larry: comedy is a serious business. >> it's the most fun you could ever imagine. you're around smart and funny people all the time. it's almost 24 hours a day that you're with everybody. it's the most fun constantly. also like blocking sketches. >> it's like hangout time. >> it's like your best friends. >> not to be sentimental about it, but i am very sentimental. it's almost nine years to the day that we started our first show, seth and i, our first show was september 29th 2001, and it

was a very different time then to be on live television. certainly a historic show, but we were also just new cast members trying to figure out where the bathrooms were. to be able to be back nine years later and see how much things have changed and to be back in different capacities is awesome. >> larry: was it hard to write after 9/11? >> it would have been so hard to be new on the show. for the new cast members we have now, it's not right after 9/11, but they're going to go through the toughest time they've ever had. you have to perform in front of a live audience. there's nothing that is like it. there's no practice you can have to figure it out. so to have that sort of both at once was a really tricky thing. on one hand though, it let us give us a little bit of time to figure it out, because no one was paying attention to us. >> larry: how did you approach that? >> the hardest part -- there were two things that were hard. one was finding the right way to

start. i sort of thought i would start with music. i asked paul simon if he would sing the boxer which is a new york city song about renewal. we had to start with a laugh. >> can we be funny? >> why start now? >> so that's the moment and the problem, as a dress rehearsal, we're doing it, and when rudy is about to tell a joke, he starts to smile and i would be looking him in the eye and i would see he was getting -- because i'm doing my line and i know he's already excited about the fact that he's going to get a laugh in a moment, so that was the opening note between dress and air was for him to not smile until he said his line. it got a huge laugh and we were back. >> larry: we'll be right back, don't go away.

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>> larry: i'm going to ask seth to take us through a week, starting the conception on monday through saturday. first let's see fred as me. watch. ♪ >> good evening, i'm. >> larry: king, are these glasses getting bigger are is my face shrinking. new rumors are flying everyday.

coh conan is out and no one is talking about the greatest talk show host of all time, mr. joey bishop. >> larry: it's flattering. am i hard to do? >> no, it's pretty easy. >> larry: i don't know how to take that. >> you know, you're iconic. i'm so familiar with your voice. i've been hearing it and listening to it for a long time. >> larry: i'm honored. >> thank you. you do us the service of dressing in an easy way. >> larry: you're making fun of it? >> we are with that sketch too. >> larry: take us through a week? >> monday, we pitch ideas to our host, amy. we get started on the writing. everybody piles into lorne's office, we talk about one or two things we're walking on. >> larry: the writers. >> cast members do as well. people don't understand how much the cast members write and

contribute to that as well. >> larry: tuesday? >> people roll in here around noon and stay through the night a fair share of us, a good group of us stay through the night all the way until wednesday. >> larry: lorne is here through all of this? >> oh, no. >> i leave around 3:00. >> he's pretty good. >> larry: wednesday? >> we sit around the table. we have a stack of about 40 scripts and we read through it. >> larry: is the host the participant in skits in which the host is not involved? >> i would say of the 40, the host is probably in 35. so they sit at the head of the table. >> larry: thursday? >> we read through everything, go off in a room where lorne and the host start selecting, paring that down. >> it wouldn't work. >> larry: you write the host's monologue?

>> we do. that's one where you most want the host to be on board. >> larry: friday? >> you don't care about thursday. >> larry: i thought you did thursday. >> no that was wednesday still. >> we're here rehearsing. >> larry: you are here, you're blocking cameras. >> we're rewriting everything. cut it down, punch it out. >> larry: are you laughing during these times. >> we are. >> larry: friday? >> that's more camera blocking. we're down here. late in the night, we go up to lorne's office and order the show. we fly out the window after dress rehearsal but make our best guess. >> larry: is it true you do a rehearsal show that an audience sees. >> 8:00 on saturday night. >> larry: a new audience comes in. >> yeah. >> larry: at the rehearsal show, decisions are made, fred? >> yeah, during, right after. you know, from the audience, we can tell what's going to work.

>> larry: does the rehearsal audience get to see more stuff than the audience at 11:30? >> definitely. >> larry: i would rather go to rehearsal show. >> you're right, and you're in bed by 11:00, larry. >> larry: we'll be back with more after this. like accident forgiveness and bigger discounts just by staying with us. oh! ooh! so, what you're saying is, it gets even better with age. oh! tell me we're still talking about insurance. rewarding loyalty. now, that's progressive. call or click today. with a new line of fresh recipes. like chicken teriyaki with water chestnuts. it steams to perfection in minutes, giving the fresh flavors and textures of a homemade meal. marie's new steamed meals. it's time to savor.

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nation's largest ever gathering of misspelled signs. this wednesday, the rockefeller christmas tree was eliminated. however the occasion was mared when aretha franklin was caught in a bear's mouth. >> larry: what's the toughest part of this show? >> you have to start over with a blank slate. whether you have a good or bad show, it doesn't stick around to the following monday. the great part of this show is we are allowed to be wildly inconsistent with our approach to what we think is funny this week. >> larry: wildly inconsistent. >> in our approach, this week, this writer might have an idea that has nothing to do with politics, the next week, somebody could have an idea about something in pop culture. the next week it could be a timeless comedy idea that could have been on the show 30 years ago. >> larry: does it get a little, on saturday at 11:15? >> that's just what the job is,

you know, making sure that you hit your mark and that you've got everything right, but i mean, it's still fun. that stuff is still fun anyway. >> those live moments -- those cortisol spikes you have when things go wrong is intoxicating. i remember doing a sketch with queen latifah and mya rudolph, we were backup singers. we had to sing a song and something was happening with the music so the mousse ig wasn't coming on. it was live and jenna, our stage manager was okay, 10, nine, eight. do you want me to tell them. >> six, five, there's no music. >> we just had to sing without any music. it's those kind of moments that are beyond fun. >> larry: where are you, lorne, when all this is happening? >> standing on the floor. >> larry: you're not in the control room. >> i go back and forth. there's lots of shows going on.

there's a show in the control room, there's a show out here and there's changes happening while we're on air. >> larry: we'll be back more as they start their 36th year tomorrow night. don't go away.

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now back to larry king. >> the lawrence welk show. >> we have a very special guest. one, and two ♪ i'm sure you have a lot to say about your mother on this day ♪ ♪ tell me why you love her ♪ her apple pie is the best ♪ she tucks me in at night ♪ she gives me good advice ♪ i'm only allowed upstairs >>. >> larry: another famous show in television history was lawrence welq with the bubbles. kristen plays judy. how did you find that? you didn't watch the lawrence welk show? >> i was polar with it. we were watching a lot online.

>> larry: how did you find judy. >> anne hathaway was hosting. we wanted to do a group with one of her sisters. one of her sisters was a little different. we wanted to think of a different way of how to make her really kind of not attractive, so we were like hey, big forehead, little tooth, little hands. she was sort of born that way. >> was her forehead that big or was i looking through bubbles. >> larry: do you feel you're above this? >> no, it's really funny. >> larry: you miss this? >> having been in the cast, when you come back to host, it's -- you kind of know -- you've peeked behind the curtain and you know how hard everybody is working so, it's just like the ultimate experience to be able to have lived it and go back.

>> larry: fred, we saw you do me. >> you didn't like that answer. >> larry: it was a good answer. >> yes, i feel above everyone, larry. what do you want from me? >>. >> larry: i know you do. fred, were you a kid who imitated people? >> all the time, yeah, people -- >> all the time. teachers, everyone, on my street all the time. >> larry: let's do a couple. >> do your own teacher. >> okay. mr. brando you was kind of like -- nine times -- >> that's so like him. >> larry: we all remember him. hugo chavez? >> he was kind of like -- he was always puckering up. >> larry: martin scorsese. >> he just talks really fast all the time. double speed every time he talks. >> larry: no one in the world does steve jobs. >> yeah, he's a hero of mine. he's just the greatest. he's like a rock star in a way,

but he's just really into numbers and long, long pauses so he'll just say like, a billion downloads a day. a billion. downloads a day. that's his line. he loves numbers. introducing the new ipod picano. >> the show itself, putting it all together and then getting ready to go on, some weeks you have a lot, some weeks you don't have a lot. are you perked up no matter what you're doing? i'm trying to figure out like when you're not included a lot. >> when you have a bad week in terms of being on the show, you definitely relax a little bit more. i do, anyway. >> larry: when you have a bad week? >> yeah. i mean it's more fun if you're in the show, but it's also a lot more stress and a lot more going on. you have a much better afterparty if you've been in the show a lot.

>> larry: when a skit is not working, seth, obviously every skit can't work when you're doing live, what goes through you as head writer? because you know it's not working. >> you know right away. and you hope, if it's during dress rehearsal, you hope you also know that you're not going to have to do it at the air show. but if for whatever reason have you to fix it, like almost like -- you don't really have time to sort of have anything go through your head other than just get together as many people as you can and start going to work on it. you sort of watch it under the bleachers with loren and it's like triage more than anything else. which of these can we save? which do we say good-bye to? >> larry: what goes to you when a bid is not work something. >> it depends on why it's not working. it can be the shooting is -- cueing was wrong, it can be that the audience is not interested, it can be that it's just too long. >> larry: what happens like if it's all three? >> if it's all three, it's left

alone and tiptoes quietly out of here. >> you know if you're under the bleachers and loren starts talking about other things -- >> did you have a nice summer? >> sometimes when they don't go well and you look at other cast members, it's very hard not to laugh. when you say that line. >> larry: when it's not going well? >> yeah, you nope the line that's supposed to get the laugh and it's silent and you look at the other person and you're like, i have four more minutes i have to do this. >> the first joke bellwether doesn't work, you're like that's with a the best one. >> those are the times when you become so connected with the cast members, because the times when you're dying are the times you become close friends. >> it's also the humility that no matter what -- how certain you were that something was going to work and then there's just silence, you realize that no one knows. >> have there been laughs at the dress rehearsal and not at the show? >> absolutely. >> larry: so you're thrown by that? >> yeah.

i mean, no one will never know except the people on the inside, but there's moments where if you go back and look at it, we'll look at a scene and laugh because there's a line that destroyed in dress and you see it on air and somebody just goes for that line so hard with full confidence, like "and that's what i said, to hell with the butler!" and it's like dead silence. >> and you had one in scrooge mcduck. >> what? >> you can see our eyes dial late when you watch the take because we're like, what happened? >> larry: we'll be back with our remaining moments, we'll ask about betty white. ♪ when it's planes in the sky ♪ ♪ for a chain of supply, that's logistics ♪ ♪ when the parts for the line ♪ ♪ come precisely on time ♪ that's logistics ♪ ♪ a continuous link, that is always in sync ♪ ♪ that's logistics ♪

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remember how bad a governor i am already? imagine how awful i'll be when i'm not trying to impress anyone. i can just let myself go like a typical housewife in new jersey. >> larry: governor paterson of new york. >> pretty much like one closed eye looking this way, and just a little bit of a -- i mean, that's pretty much it. >> larry: you don't have to do more than that. how was betty white to work with? >> she was fabulous. she worked so hard that thursday and friday because we're used to that schedule and she didn't make -- she never complained, just extraordinary to watch how great she was at it. just what a pro. >> what do you make of her resurrection? >> yeah, i've been watching her my whole life. it was such an honor to have her here. "golden girls" and "mary tyler

moore" i've been a fan forever. >> larry: amy, you all revved up? >> i don't know. i mean, i feel like you're nervous for me. >> larry: i'm nervous for you because you're above all these people. that must be -- you've got to come way down tomorrow. >> she's not above lorne. >> no. >> that's what she's aiming for. >> larry: she wants to be lorne. >> well, as great as. >> right. >> no, i'm very, very, very excited. and see, look. >> we're all excited. everyone's very excited. >> larry: despite what she said about -- >> despite the fact we don't know what we're going to be doing. >> yes. >> larry: we've taped this earlier in the week. >> even then on friday night we wouldn't know what we're going to be doing. we'd have a very good idea, but then things don't work or things come together that you are surprised at or the audience. >> larry: why has this show

lasted? anyone can jump in. seth? >> i think there's nothing quite like it, and you know there's that chance on a saturday night that you're going to see something that you're going to remember for the rest of your life, and i think it's cross generational. i was at the airport the other day and ran into a guy twice my age and he said he still makes it home by 11:30 to watch it. >> i always felt it was something i needed to be around and watch. >> larry: why do you think, andy? >> i think it's something that never gets old because it's basically like a weekly campfire for the country, you know, people get to check in, sort of talk about what happened that week and combined with, i'm going to suck up and do it, lorne keeps choosie ining great people that are hits, come in with creative ideas and has surrounded himself with people that are good at what they do in every department, you know? when i came here i couldn't believe how smoothly things run