. >> lorne michaels, this canadian comedy producer, was given free rein. >> hi.es improv comics. >> rehearsal and warmup, let's do 28 face slaps. come on. slap. come on. make it hurt. >> george carlin was the first host. wanted to be permanent host. >> nice to see you. welcome and thanks for joining us live. >> there were a lot of names bandied about in terms of permanent hosts. >> that's one of those tv rules you mustn't break, until you do. then you realize, why don't you have a different host every week? but it was the cast that finally won people's hearts. >> come on, who is this? >> andy-gram. >> you're that guy? "you cut your own steaks, we give you the sauce!" >> i'm barbara wawa. >> thank you, thank you very much. you're beautiful. you're beautiful. thank you. >> you were drawn to the tv set, because you knew something insane might happen. >> live, live. >> live from new york! >> partly because it was live. partly because you knew television was now in the hands of the television generation. ♪ peacock ♪ >> and these were kids in quotes who just might do a

i'm wondering, though, bill -- >> exactly. >> when you say that for lorne michaels, any boycott wouldhow do you think he would handle it? do you think people would get fired? >> well, that's what i don't expect to happen because lorne besides being a masterful producer has always been masterful at the psychology of handling talented people. obviously this cast of that show has always had a lot of out there kind of people among the writers and performers, and he has had to wrangle them over all these years, 40-plus years. so i would imagine behind the scenes there's been discussion. he may have said to some of the writers, if you don't want to write a sketch, then you can write a commercial or a sketch that he's not in. the host is not in every sketch. there are ways to manage this, and i would be surprised if he wasn't managing in, and everyone who's on that show knows it's kind of a gigantic career boost and privilege to be on the show, so to push that too far would be pretty risky for their careers, i think. >> no doubt there will be a lot of people tuning in to watch that opening m

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you outdo what lorne michaels and his brilliant writers could ever write for you. like he's like ten stops past that. >> yeah. i mean, they're tokenizing him is actually what they're doing. and lindsey graham said it himself to the point of absurdity. and it's insulting. it's insulting to people of color that this is who they are trotting out there and this is who they are heralding as someone qualified to be a senator. it is really -- it just shows you what the republican party thinks of people of color, that this is the best this eph? how insulting is that? and then to have ted cruz and lindsey graham sit there and babysit him, clearly that didn't work. we saw what came out of his mouth that day. it was a disaster. it's just the mockery of it all is something that i guess we kind of sit back and go, can you believe it? but this guy came within a percentage point of winning. we need to understand that. even though we're laughing at this as the absurdity of it. but the point is that he even had a shot, that he's even this close, we need to be careful that we don't