Posted by
Ed Lilly on Sunday, November 18, 2007 9:33:26 AM
I thought Saturday Night Live stopped doing shows about 15 years ago, but apparently they are still around. Though I see from
this story from Fox News that they managed to do a live show last night despite the ongoing writer's strike:
NEW YORK — It wasn't live from New York as usual.
About 150 audience members in a tiny Manhattan theater were the only folks in the world to witness a totally new "Saturday Night Live" episode starring guest host Michael Cera and musical guest Yo La Tengo.
Anyone who tuned into NBC was subjected to a two-week-old rerun featuring Brian Williams and Feist, thanks to an ongoing Writers Guild of America labor strike.
I guess it would have been poor form to point out that the number of audience members in the Manhattan theater were approximately equal to the number of households nationwide that tuned into NBC for the rerun.