and you get not only phil hartman occasionally doing reagan, but once carvey becomes george h.w.oice and the mannerisms, it became about every week, what is carvey going to do as bush. >> dana carvey -- >> you have to look at how television has changed. "saturday night live" when it began in the 1970s, you watched it, and if you wanted to see it again, you had to wait until there was a repeat or wait until the clip show. now, the show circulates on so many different platforms, immediately after you have seen it. you can go on the web and you can see embedded clips on various websites. showing some this morning. they'll show them on morning joe and the "today" show tomorrow. it becomes part of the national conversation through all the different ways that we have to communicate now. >> and do we know -- you're talking about that shift maybe sometime in the '80s, around reagan and george bush sr., was it because of -- was it something about the politics of the time that suddenly there was this need for what "snl" was doing, something about the writers on the show, al franken was wri