Dana Carvey

I think if the Dana Phil Hartman, that first season doesn't work,

I think the show gets canceled and it really feels like if, if the will Farrell that season, if Farrell's not on the show and the new blood and the people they kept, but then the new people they brought in and that season didn't work.

I do wonder if they would have canceled it that year.

Cause I remember that that was back in the day when those magazine profiles, if it was the right kind of hit piece really felt like incredibly damaging.

And that I remember reading that New York magazine piece and being like,

oh my God, the show's going to get canceled.

And then that first episode with Will, he showed up, he did Get Off the Shed.

He did the phone thing with Meryl Hemingway.

And it was just like, oh, we're good.

This guy's amazing.

This show's going to be good again.

But after that, I never felt like SNL was in danger again after that.

I watch... I still watch.

I still monitor it.

I think they've made the mistake the last decade of too many cast members, which I think you can always trace when the show is struggling.

When the show is always humming, it's always smaller cast members.

I've talked about...

a bunch of people about this who've worked on the cast.

Like it's like a basketball team.

If you, if you guys watch basketball, like I do, if you're playing 14 players,