It's no secret that I love Saturday Night Live. Next to Letterman, it is my greatest television obsession. So when I saw in New York magazine last week that a panel discussion with SNL people was scheduled, I rushed to get tickets.
So tonight my roommate Cathy and I headed to the Times Center to see a panel discussion consisting of Lorne Michaels, Jim Downey, Seth Meyers and Amy Poheler talk about SNL and Presidential Politics. We were in the second row and I swear I made contact with Lorne.
The evening was sponsored by the Museum of the Moving Image. They had speaker after speaker and I felt like I was in an infomercial. I paid good money to see Lorne Michaels talk about SNL, not see a laptop presentation on the Living Candidate website. After what felt like an eternity, the program finally started.
The highlight for me was watching the panel watch the Sarah Palin/HIllary Clinton skit from last Saturday. It is such a rare thing to see Lorne watch a sketch and get a reaction and that moment in itself was so special. I've also determined that I want to become best friends with Jim Downey. Jim Downey is the mastermind behind almost all the classic SNL political sketches, including my all-time favorite sketch of Bill Clinton in McDonald's. He is so relaxed and awesomely full of stories. Seth Meyers is hilarious, as is Amy Poheler. It will be sad to see her leave SNL.
It was so great to hear behind-the-scenes antidotes and be in the room with so many brilliant minds. It just makes me appreciate them all the more.
Quote of the Day:
"It's always exciting to say 'Live from New York!'" -Amy Poehler
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I almost went to that, but was upstairs at the Times working instead. I belong to IFP, which includes membership in the Museum of the Moving Image. They had an amazing presentation in July of the movie "Man on Wire" with Philippe Petit himself interviewed afterward.
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