we had sarah silverman in, dana carvey, david spade, chelsea handler. >> jimmy: oh cool. >> a lot ofon. >> jimmy: yeah. >> david spade. >> jimmy: david spade was there. >> and sometimes. >> jimmy: adam sandler. >> when you get the uh -- chelsea handler. you get these comics in the room with these kids. >> jimmy: like which comics? >> well like david spade. >> jimmy: yeah. >> adam sandler. >> jimmy: oh i love those guys. >> sarah silverman. >> jimmy: i love her. >> drew carey. >> jimmy: fantastic. drew carey. >> did i mention drew carey? >> jimmy: no. >> yeah. george lopez. >> jimmy: george lopez too? >> yeah, and, drew carey. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: and drew carey. there's a lot of people. >> sometimes when these kids, when they're with the kids, you don't know who's more immature. >> jimmy: yeah. >> the kids or the comics. >> jimmy: yeah, exactly. well that's it. playing around. like, what, for instance what comics, maybe? >> well today like dana carvey or david spade. >> jimmy: yeah. >> or sarah silverman. >> jimmy: i love her stuff. [ laughter ] i want -- >> oh, oh, chelsea handler

he was writing things for dana carvey. pitching shows to sandler pass company. said, no, you are the star. you are funny. you should have a show. stop pitching other people's shows. i'm going to sit on the charlie rose show and take all the credit for louis ck. >> you made him what he is today to request they wanted him to do stuff for other people. they were making money. everybody thought he should be working for other people. i thought that guys a star. me and louis have a great friendship and i love the guy dearly. he comes to me, whatever, before i start writing it he says, you have to write it by yourself. he says, you have to write it by yourself. me and louis wrote a movie together. he says, no, you have to get in a room and feel hurt. lonely. feel the pain, the blood sweat and tears it takes to write by yourself. stare at a piece of paper and have no one to get out of this but you. you always write with people. you end up with a watered-down version of yourself. you have to write by yourself. he made me write by myself. i only did in standup. when you w

you know, will ferrell playing bush 43, dana carvey bush 41, you know, it just gives us a sense of who they are, fairly or unfairly. >> tom shales, you wrote for "the washington post," down here in a political town. how important is the politics? in saturday night live? >> well, i think as jim said, a lot of interaction there, a lot of influence, and they sort of couldn't live without each other, i guess. the show has gotten, the show's always had a young audience and targeted at a young demographic, and i think for some of that young demographic, this is their main exposure to politics, or they learn a lot of political realities through saturday night live. they don't watch news really very much, i think. they maybe get stuff over the internet, but saturday night live is an actual source of political information for them, not just entertainment. i don't mean it's their only source, but i think it plays a major role in how they think of to things. >> the big difference is that when saturday night live first started, there was nothing else like it. so when they were doing the political