our guests are lorne michaels, amy poehler, who we hear will host the show tomorrow night.he's the three time award nominee, seth meyers is the anchor of weekend update and the head writer of this program, the emmy writer, kristen wiig, you know her as nancy pelosi. fred armisen, you know him as me or joy behar, and andy samberg. >> how did this idea get conceived? >> i think it got conceived because herb schlasser who was writing nbc felt there should be production back in new york. he had a strong affection for live programming and in the glory days of new york television. >> "the tonight show" had been on. >> yes. i was down stairs in 6 b with johnny carson. they wanted a new show. >> larry: for saturdays. >> the time period, at that point, was carson was best of carson which was reruns of the tonight show. i don't think johnny was happy with those shows, so they decided to do a new show, and dick ambersol had left sports at abc. >> larry: what were you doing? >> i was working with lilley tomlin on writing and producing on her shows, both at cbs and abc. i had begun at n

my parents, lorne michaels, my trainer, my nutritionist, my agent. no, no, no, no, no.y agents -- ford henderson, randy sebo. >> larry: okay, that's one of his regular bits, thank you notes. >> i'm sorry larry. i'm sorry to do this to you. is it live tonight? are you doing larry king live? i have to write out some thank you e-mails, i have to send them out right now. i was wondering if i could do that right now. >> larry: go ahead. >> thank you, make row breweries for making my alcoholism seem like a neat hobby. thank you, cotton candy for making my grandma's hair delicious. send. thank you, the name lloyd for having two l's at the beginning of your name. if you didn't have that second l, i would probably just call you loyd. thank you, chile's for putting the calories on the menu. i'm at chili's what part of i don't care don't you understand. thank you slow family walking in front of me -- thank you, send. sorry about that, larry. >> larry: that's a great bit. >> i love to do that bit. i have great writers. you always hope to get those bits, like leno's headlines. jerem

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

lorne michaels, amy poehler, seth myers, kristen wig, fred armisson and andy samburg and you watch them all tomorrow when "saturday night live" begins its 36th consecutive year, 11:30 eastern on nbc. thanks for joining us. "ac 360" is next. >>> thanks, larry, and thanks for joining us. >>> tonight, can someone in a u.s. senator's office post a hate-filled death threat online and get away with it? it took amateurs just hours to trace the computer so why is it taking folks in congress days to find the computer user? we're keeping them honest. also tonight a congressional candidate comes out with an over the top political ad about the proposed islamic center near ground zero using the term muslim and terrorist interchangeably. is she using ground zero to boost her trailing campaign? we'll ask her, tonight. and the shocking new revelations in that connecticut home invasion horror. family held hostage and assaulted and killed, all the while the alleged murderers were texting each other, talking about champing at the bit to do the crime. tonight you'll see their texts and hear what happened i

. >> i went to the yankees game last night, jimmy fallon was in the audience with lorne michaels watching good seats. they don't usually sit in the bleachers. >> we saw them on television. we weren't near them. every seat was a good one. >> i'd love to be at the yankee game where they put steinbrenner in monument park. i thought that was pretty cool. >> my husband was there. i was home sleeping because i got to get up early to bring you the news like this. new health care overhaul takes effect tomorrow. despite the fact many americans remain skeptical about its benefits. president obama hitting the road to talk about the specifics and our julie kirtz joins us from washington with details on what you might want to know about everything. julie, please, fill us in. >> hi, gretchen. key consumer friendly provisions of the massive law the president signed in march, six months ago, kick in tomorrow as americans are skeptical and a little confused, frankly about the impact of the trillion dollar legislation so starting tomorrow, the patients bill of rights will ban insurance company discriminati

bonanza starred lorne green as ben cartwright, a rancher and widower with three grown sons, adam, hoss, and little joe played by heart throb michael in a break from the traditional tv shoot 'em up bonanza de-emphasized gun play in favor of human drama and family joshing. >> you and your education. >> education is progress. now, what have you got against it? >> i don't have anything against education. as long as it doesn't interfere with your thinking. >> osgood: bonanza soared to second place in the ratings during its third season and enjoyed a three-year run as number one beginning in 1964. changing tastes took their toll. after 14 seasons, the show was taken off the air in 1973. by then, dan blocker had died of a pulmonary embolism at just 4 years of age. green died in 1987 and landon in 1991. and roberts earlier this year. >> it's about families. the pioneers. >> osgood: just this past week we learned of the death at age 93 of bonanza's creator. what is the message of bonanza? david once said love is the message. which may be why millions of fans so loved this show. next, a sunday drive back in time. since our beginning, we've