james andrew miller is co-author of the book "live from new york: encensored history of saturday nightanks for having me. >> let's talk about how "saturday night live" went from being a goofy comedy show to a political touch stone, a way to make and break politicians. that really hurt gerald ford. >> a de facto branding of the candidate or president, and it kept on going through the generations to the point now i think if you're running for president, you almost automatically think i'm going to have to go on "saturday night live." >> you had iconic portrayals whether dana carvey being george h.w. bush mocking him in a way, of course, you have to include the sarah palin impression that a lot of people believe very much contributed to her downfall, her sort of cultural downfall. is "saturday night live" at this point more than a comedy show? it's had its critics in terms of whether it's funny every year, of course. is it now as you said something presidential candidates actually need to fear? >> i think it's part of the political process. i interviewed senator mccain and governor palin a

. >> live from new york, it's saturday night, and the authors are james andrew miller and tom shales. mr. milliken what was the point of this book? >> we had written a definitive and what we wanted to be a definitive history of sound that lives that ended in 2002. so we decide to go back and update it but it turns out the last 12 years of said that lives were very busy and we reached another 200 pages. .. and he talked to most of the