Kevin Bleyer

Yeah.

Yeah.

Doug and I both had the experience on Politically Incorrect of, you know, you'd write up your X number of jokes.

I don't remember exactly, Doug, how many we'd kind of be expected to write on a given day.

Somewhere between, you know, 30 and 50.

You know, 30.

Yeah, I mean, you knew that they weren't all great.

But, you know, you wanted three or four pages of jokes, you know, single-spaced jokes.

um and so you'd have four or five hours to write them we'd you know we'd stack them on top of each other and the head writer would slip them under bill's door and then later either that day or the next day after he'd already selected the jokes and put them in the prompter you'd get those pages back with with the parts underlined uh that he liked or didn't like and you i think the idea was to give you a very immediate sense of his taste uh what jokes he responded to even if they didn't make the prompter

um and you know sometimes you don't turn a page and yeah maybe there'd be a bunch of blue lines that never reach like well that feels better but then you'd open to another page like did he even finish reading this because there's no underlines on the next three pages though how does that make you feel

I mean, you know, I don't know.

You're so grateful for the gig.

You're trying to have a thick skin and think another day is another dollar and maybe that's just another dollar, but another opportunity to prove yourself.

And yes, if you showed up in two or three days in a row, you felt like you hadn't.

And forgive me, I want to get back to SNL.

I was...

I was invested in that story too.

But two or three days in a row, when you don't have a response, you start worrying.

But that's, of course, why you're not the only writer on the show.

You recognize that.