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they're here from the set and one of the late night's longest runs shows. if you don't know what "saturday night live" is, you're not from this planet. next on "larry king live." tomorrow night "saturday night live" celebrates at 11:30 eastern time. we have five outstanding cast members and the executive producer with us and in the studio, the famous studio, studio 8h of the nbc studios at 30 rock. our guests are lorne michaels, creator and executive producer of snl sknl. he started it all. amy poehler, former cast member would by the way we hear will host the show tomorrow night. she's the three-time emmy award nominee and star of nbc's new

show "parks and recreation" seth is the anchor of "weekend update." emmy winner, christian wig on nancy pelosi or the target later. fred, you know him as me or governor patterson or joy behar and andy sandburg best known for his digital stuff. how did this idea get conceived? >> i think it got conceived because herb who was writing nbc felt there should be production back in new york and he had a strong affection for live television in the glory days. i was downstairs with johnny carson. they wanted a new show. the time period at that point

was carson was best of carson which was reruns they decided to do a new show and dick who had just been hired as the director of late night -- at the time i was working with lilly 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 and of

course grew up watching it, 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 in front of him? >> it used to be, then hr stepped in. >> it's with -- >> 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. you have like what is it now, five minutes or so. >> larry: how did you get on the show? >> i was doing a two-person show in chicago, sort of a sketch improv show, and i was lucky enough that somebody saw the show and i sent in a couple audition tapes and finally got brut 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 be -- they have to have a certain amount of comfort being on a stage, because they're about to go into -- >> larry: live television. >> yeah, 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? >> only 50,000? >> yeah. >> that's okay. >> it was later. >> i was at the groundlings in los angeles. and, yeah, my manager had talked about me about making a tape. so we put some stuff together, yeah and 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 just myself on the stage, so i was terrified. >> larry: fred, how did they find you or where did they find you or how did you find them? >> i was doing standup comedy in los angeles. we also sent in tapes. and, yeah, i auditioned right here, and i remember it was like really nerve-racking but when we got the phone call, that we got the show, i saved it as best call ever. so since then i've just transferred that number over and over. but it was exciting. it was really great just 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 or she's 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. >> yeah, 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. no, it was -- we have four new casts this year, and it's an election year. and just one of the most solid choice i could find. and here she is. >> larry: how do you feel about that, seth? >> i'm very -- i think we're all thrilled. it's very exciting. you know, one of the joys of 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 here are happy that amy is back. i think the cast members are excited to be on stage. >> larry: someday it will be you, kristen? >> that would be great. >> i mean, amy has changed. don't get me wrong. she's a lot harder to work with. >> larry: oh, she's a little stuckup. >> talks a lot about hollywood. >> i don't appreciate eye contact from people that are younger than me. >> larry: i see. 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. you said maybe meryl streep. >> i said maybe streep, i said if she's lucky. >> larry: andy, are you very happy for amy's success? >> yeah. >> larry: you won't be after what she just said. >> no. no. amy is beloved by all. that's her secret move. no one doesn't like her. >> oh. that's nice. i can name a few.

>> yeah, i would say it's inspiring to see. i came in when amy was in the middle of her run. and i would say her and seth maybe more than anyone really looked out for me and kind of took me under their wing and made sure i was doing okay. >> larry: why, fred, is he staring at you? >> i was just showing him the ropes. >> there was a lot of hazing. >> so much hazing. 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 cast and the exec producer. "saturday night live," it's 36 years, starts tomorrow night. don't go away. logistics makes the world work better. ♪ 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

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♪ how you feel tell me what you feel eskimo ♪ >> larry: was she a good sport? >> yeah. i mean anyone who comes on the show is already a good sport. >> larry: fred, the new season is starting. are you going to play obama early? >> we'll see how the week goes, and what the writers have and what lorne decides. >> larry: do you have any trepidation about playing him? >> no, i enjoy playing him. and it's always fun to see what angle the writers have on it. none really. >> larry: do you have impact with the writers? can you say i'm comfortable with this? and not comfortable with that? >> i trust them a lot. and they've never presented me with anything that i wasn't comfortable with. >> it's also here the cast write as well and fred and amy and andy contribute as well. at read-through. they take it as peers. >> larry: kristen, your most famous impressions are the speaker of the house, pelosi,

kathie lee gifford and suzie orman. who's been a frequent guest -- all of them have. what's the trick of suzie orman? oh, my gosh. well, she's very energetic and she's very passionate about everything she talks about. so i think for me, just finding that one thing in a person that i'm doing an impression of and really just blowing it up to make it like more of a character than the actual person. >> that is what my hairdresser has named my hairdo, the cutback, because she only cuts the back. >> larry: do you study her a lot? >> yeah, i mean i watched her for years. so i love her. 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. >> oh, yeah. you could see her up there, her blond hair. >> larry: andy, you had a fight with mark wahlberg, right?

>> fight is a little harsh. >> larry: what did you have with him? >> i did an impression of him and he was doing press for a movie of his and he was asked about it. >> larry: how do you impersonate mark wahlberg? what sticks out about mark wahlberg? i mean he's terrific. >> he reminds me of a lot of guys i grew up with. >> you're a donkey, i like that. you eat apples, right. i produce "entourage." >> what i love point impression, 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. >> yeah. >> those are always the one -- >> larry: impression is more not in the voice so much as in the manner, right? >> yeah, and just i think grab the personality. >> but, i mean, he came on and did a thing with me about it as well. so -- >> larry: it was all in jest. >> i wouldn't say like besty besties, but close. >> pretty close. >> yeah. >> larry: you do 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 premiere impressionist who 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 always necessarily need to sound exactly like them. you just want to create a character of who they are, so i tried to do that with her. because hillary -- she's kind of -- she didn't have anything that really stuck out voicewise that i felt 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. but i thought jim downey wrote a lot of hillary's pieces, and his take on her which fluctuated over the many years that i played her certainly, 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. and i thought that was a great take. >> larry: do you always try to begin with politics? >> it's a nice place for it. 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? >> yeah, i mean, it will depend on what -- because anything topical, well, then the nightly shows probably -- if it happened on a monday or tuesday, the nightly shows would have probably beaten it to death by then. and 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. ♪ claritin-d. nothing works stronger, faster or longer for allergy congestion relief without drowsiness.

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♪ >> larry: "saturday night live," 36 years starting tomorrow night. that's a record, i guess. we're 25 1/2 and feel like a baby. okay. 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. i just thought you should know you're buying a big bag of feces. >> thanks. >> larry: how do you find her? do you know a lady like that? >> i actually did meet someone who worked at a target that talked a little bit like that, but then i exaggerated it quite a bit. anticipate i actually i did that character at the groundlings. and she's one of the characters that i auditioned with. >> larry: how did you find gilly? >> gilly. >> that's a lot like how you are in real life. >> 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. akiba and yurma had the initial idea. >> larry: did timberlake go for it right away? >> larry: tells a lot about him. >> 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 that we had done with natalie

portman and for that lazy sunday one. >> larry: how did you come up with the idea of digital shorts. >> well, i mean there's a long history of short films on the show. >> larry: i know. >> 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. so -- but we didn't get hired for that. i got hired off my audition. then they got hired on the writing packet but when we got here, we suggested, you know, we do this kind of stuff. is there a place for it? and we talked to, you know, some of the producers about it. they said, yeah, 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." and it aired and they're like, yeah, if you want to do another, give it a shot. 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: lorne, is there someone upstairs at nbc who blew pencil stuff? >> we certainly do. >> larry: did you have any trouble getting that through? >> it was certainly discussed. but i think it's -- the spirit of it is, i mean 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. >> it was his hand. >> yeah, there was no box. >> larry: what did the cast think of that bit, fred. >> oh, we loved it immediately. remember, we were out on the floor for it. immediately. >> we won't see it until dress rehearsal. you know, so it's -- the nature of the show is -- i strongly encourage them to do a digital short that week. and i believe i mentioned it on monday. >> larry: when they came up with that though. >> my point is they have a very

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place of honor. they ought to transport this to the smithsonian, along with our set. >> is it a package deal? >> larry: yeah, for longevity. seth and amy, they were great together as "weekend update" co-anchors. watch. >> really, cdc, the next thing you want to give something to goldman that should be giving to students give yourself a big nookie, come on. really. come on. >> really. >> really. >> come on! >> this has been -- >> 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 i think about a lot of things. andy suggested i should put it in a segment. >> larry: your idea was really? >> i mean i talk like that all the time. andy actually had the idea. >> it was born of his personality. my impression of seth was

always that 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 incredulosity with you? >> larry: is this a fun place to work? >> no. >> larry: no, it's not. >> maybe before fred got here. >> larry: comedy is a serious business. >> no, i the most fun you could ever imagine because you're just around smart and funny people all the time and you're around them a lot. i mean the week is -- it's almost 24 hours a day that you're with everybody. and it's just the most fun constantly, also like blocking sketches. it's just -- >> 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. >> larry: it sure was. >> and certainly a historic

show, but we were also just new cast members trying to figure out where the bathrooms were, so 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, seth? >> it would have been so hard to be new on the show. like for the new cast members we have now, i mean it's not right after 9/11, but they're going to go through the toughest time they've ever had because you have to learn ow to write for the show and 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. and then i sort of thought that i would start with music and i got -- i asked paul simon if he would sing "the boxer" which is

sort of 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 so i would be looking him in the eye and i would see he was getting -- because i'm doing my line and i know that 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 not to smile until he said his line. and then it got a huge laugh and we were back. >> larry: speaking of back we'll be right back. don't go away. [ female announcer ] it's not always easy to get the calcium we need from our diet.

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>> larry: in a minute i'm going to ago seth to take us through a week, starting with 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 or is my face shrinking? you decide. tonight the late night wars are h heating up once again with new rumors are flying everyday. conan is out. jay is in and no one is talking about the greatest talk show host of all time, mr. joey bishop. >> larry: that's pretty good. that's flattering, by the way.

am i hard to do? >> no, it's pretty easy. >> larry: i don't know how to take that. >> it's just, you know, you're iconic and i'm so familiar with your voice. i've been hearing it and listening to it for a long time. so -- >> larry: well, i'm honored. >> thank you. >> plus you do us the service of dressing in a very 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. then we get started on the writing. we sort of -- everybody piles into lorne's office and sort of says one or two ideas >> larry: the writers. >> cast members do as well. we have a lot of writing. people don't understand how much the cast members write and contribute to that as well. >> larry: tuesday? >> tuesday people roll in here around noon and stay throughout the night, a fair share of us,

sort of a good group of us stay through the night all the way till wednesday. >> larry: lorne is here through all of this? >> oh, no. >> i leave around 3:00. >> 3:00 a.m. >> he's pretty good. >> larry: wednesday? >> wednesday we all sit around the table. we have a stack of about 40 scripts and we read through it. it takes -- >> larry: is the host the participant in skits in which the host is not involved? >> well, 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, and then we go off into a room where lorne and the host sort of start selecting paring that down to -- >> it wouldn't work. >> larry: you write the host's monologue? >> we do. we do, and, you know, that's one where you most want the host to be on board. >> larry: of course, friday? >> you don't care about

thursday at all >> larry: i thought you did thursday. >> no, that was wednesday still. >> we're here rehearsing. >> larry: thursday. you're here. >> yeah. >> larry: you're blocking cameras. >> and rewriting. we sit down and rewrite everything. cut it down, punch it out. >> larry: are you laughing during these times? >> we are. >> larry: friday? >> that's just more camera blocking. we're down here. late in the night, we go up to lorne's office and sort of order the show. it will sort of 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? >> yes. >> larry: what time? >> 8:00 on saturday night. >> larry: then 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. >> we can tell. >> larry: does the rehearsal audience get to see almost more stuff than the audience

will see at 11:30? >> definitely. >> larry: i would rather go to rehearsal show. >> yes, you would. >> larry: that would be a hoot. >> you're right, and you're in bed by 11:00, larry. >> larry: we'll be back with more right after this.

>> the tea party nation announced last week that sarah palin will headline what is being called the first national tea party convention in february. it is expected to be the nation's largest ever gathering of misspelled signs.

this wednesday the rockefeller christmas tree was illuminated, however, the occasion was marred when aretha franklin was caught in a bear's mouth. >> larry: what's the toughest part of this show? >> the toughest part is you have to start over every week with a completely blank slate. whether you have a good or bad show, it doesn't stick around to the following monday. the great part about 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 in that 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 scene that's a timeless comedy idea that could have been on the show 30 years ago. >> larry: does it get though 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.

>> and those live moments are really -- those cortisol spikes you have when things go wrong is intoxicating. i remember doing a sketch one time with queen latifah and mya rudolph, and we were backup singers. we had to sing a song and something was happening with the music so the music wasn't coming on. and it was live, and they were like, okay, and like jenna, our stage manager was like, okay, 10, 9, 8 -- do you want me to tell them -- 6, 5, 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? >> right over there just standing on the floor. >> larry: you're not in the control room. >> i go back and forth. but control room -- there's lots of shows going on. there's a show in the control room, there's a show out here and also there's changes happening while we're on air.

>> larry: we'll be back with more as they start their 36th year tomorrow night. don't go away.

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♪ 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 welk with the bubbles. and kristen plays judy. how did you find that? you didn't watch "the lawrence welk show." it's before your time. >> i used to watch 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. and so we just wanted to make her -- the way she looked was

almost not an after thought but we sort of wanted to think of a different way to make her kind of really not attractive so we were just like, big forehead and big tooth and little hands and she was just sort of born that way. >> was her forehead that big or was i looking through bubbles? >> larry: do you feel you're above this? you know you've got your own -- >> 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 and so it's just like the ultimate experience to be able to have lived it and go back. and then -- >> 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. i feel above everyone, larry. what do you want from me? >> larry: i know you do. >> thank you. >> larry: fred, were you a kid

who imitated people? >> all the time, yeah, teachers, everyone, on my street, all the time. >> larry: let's do a couple. >> yeah, do your own teacher. >> okay. mr. brendall was kind of like nine. >> that is so like him. >> such brenda. >> larry: we all remember him. okay. hugo chavez. >> hugo chavez was always like 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. i think 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. he loves the moment. introducing the new ipod picano. >> the show itself, andy, 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 after party 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 you have to fix it almost like you don't really have time for anything to 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 lorne, 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 through you when a bit is not work or is not working? >> 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 lorne starts talking about other things -- >> like did you have a nice summer? >> yeah. >> 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 know 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, oh, that was 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. you never know. >> larry: so you're thrown by that? >> yeah. i mean, there's -- no one will 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 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? >> we both -- you could see our eyes dilate when you watch the take because we're like, what happened? >> larry: we'll be back with our remaining moments, got to ask lorne about betty white. don't go away. just one bite oe wod of delight... ♪

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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. what was betty white like 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. yeah. >> larry: what do you make of her resurrection? betty white is -- snickers made her. >> yeah, i've been watching her my whole life. it was such an honor to have her here. and i mean "golden girls" and "mary tyler

moore," i mean, i've been a fan forever. i mean it's obviously well deserved. >> 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. >> no. >> that's what she's aiming for. >> larry: she wants to be lorne. >> well, as great as. >> larry: as great as. >> right. >> there can be only one lorne. >> no, i'm very, very, very excited. and see, look. >> we're all excited. everyone's very excited. >> yes. >> larry: despite what she said about -- >> everyone is very -- it's like she's coming home. >> despite the fact we don't know what we're going to be doing. >> yes. >> larry: we've taped this earlier in the week. >> but 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 mean i think there's nothing quite like it and, you know, there's a 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 at 11:30 to watch it. >> i've always watched 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 choosing great people to be on. keeps churning out 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 here. it's insane. >> larry: lorne, we can do in