Alec Baldwin's podcast, "Here's The Thing," has him interviewing a number of different people in show business and politics.
This week he points the microphone at Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels.
Michaels is famously hesitant to appear in public forums, so we were excited to hear the two in conversation -- Baldwin is a longtime SNL host, so Michaels opens up to him quite easily.
They go over Michaels's entire career, from his early days in radio to his present work developing shows for cable.
And of course, Saturday Night Live.
He started out in radio.
"It was a show called 'Five Nights a Week at This Time' and we did political satire. Every week we thought we were potentially bringing down the government, and the fact that no one was listening didn’t occur to us for at least the first year, but we loved doing it."
He started in television after getting fired from radio.
"The funny part about the show, 'The Russ Thomson Show,' was at a certain point five or six months into it the producer of the show came in and met with us and he said, "The show’s not working. We don’t know whether it’s you guys or Russ, so we thought we’d start with you guys.'"
When he wrote on "Laugh-In," the accomodations were modest.
"On 'Laugh-In,' the writers would write and then it would be edited by a head writer and then we did not go to the read-through. We were at a motel in Burbank and we would all have lunch together and that was fun and --"
"You didn’t even have offices?"
"No, we had offices but they were in a motel."
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