EMMY NOMINEE: Lorne Michaels

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

A new era of American comedy began in 1975 with the premiere of Saturday Night Live and a young producer named Lorne Michaels calling the shots. Willie Geist gets together with the SNL creator and executive producer in famed Studio 8H to talk about the show’s legacy, and how they put on a live production in the middle of both a pandemic and a presidential election. (Original broadcast date October 18, 2020)

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:06.2	My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.
0:09.6	Got a great one for you and I'm excited because it's the first in-person interview we've done since
0:14.9	March. My guest this week is SNL, creator and executive producer L.
0:20.8	L. The mastermind behind Saturday Night Live, who created this show that launched 45 years ago this month.
0:27.0	First show was October 11, 1975 hosted by George Carlin.
0:32.0	The last in-person interview we've done for hosted by George Carlin.
0:32.8	The last in-person interview we've done for the Sunday Sit Down podcast and for Sunday
0:37.2	today on NBC was with Octavia Spencer on March the 12th.
0:41.8	You remember what was going on on March the 12th?
0:43.5	It was sort of the day before the world kind of shut down.
0:46.6	So we were happy to get in person.
0:49.0	Doing an in-person interview these days
0:51.2	does not come without layers of precautions
0:53.6	especially when you go up to SNL. So I work just to give you some perspective. We do
0:59.0	the Morning Joe program on MS NBC that I host on the third floor. My office on the second floor at
1:04.3	30 Rock. They shoot SNL in Studio 8H on the eighth floor. So Lauren and I got
1:09.8	together and we sat up in the bleachers overlooking that famous stage overlooking all those sets.
1:15.9	It was on a Thursday night of a show week.
1:18.6	Bill Burr was the host.
1:20.3	They had just, well remember, canceled the musical guest, Morgan Wallin, because he was seen on
1:24.7	Tik-Tok, partying after a football game without a mask, breaking protocol so he couldn't come on the show.
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