you succeeded i think victoria jackson as being on the show for the, for the longest of any woman, andou hear well, it's not a very good environment for women, or it's not as good as it used to be. you know, you hear all those things. do you have good thoughts about it, looking back? because it's been now 10 years, right? >> shannon: yeah since i left, yeah. >> smith: yeah. >> shannon: oh yeah i have such good feelings about it. that was not true in my experience at all, i mean i think the show went through lulls where women weren't as strong, like right before i got there, it was not you know, it had been a while since jan hooks and nora dunn and victoria jackson, so there was like a big, like a big lull there. >> smith: yeah. >> shannon: so by the time cheri and i came it was like, kind of like the resurrection, oh wow, girls can... i remember the new york times did an article on cheri and i because we did a leg up, and it was kind of like wow, girls are scoring. so i remember hearing that but i was like i'm going to change that. >> smith: yeah. >> shannon: you know i really felt lik