.KenTremendous on writing for SNL after 9/11: “I thought I had this really fun job writing fake news, and then all of a sudden the world ended”
Members of ththe New York Fire Department, New York Police Department, Port Authority Police Department, with Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, Mayor Rudolph Guiliani, Fire Commissioner Tom Von Essen during the “9/11 Tribute” on September 29, 2001. Photo: Dana Edelson/NBC This article originally ran on September 11, 2015.
To me, when the definitive history of SNL is written, that period will be seen as Lorne’s greatest triumph. When the towers came down, no one had any idea what to do. Everyone was completely paralyzed, and he very steadily figured out the right path.
To me, this was the moment when we finally figured out how Hardball should go: “Make fun of someone on the right, make fun of someone on the left, and then have a third person who just says crazy stuff.” We had no idea what the relationship was between McCain and John Ashcroft before we asked him. I thought, This could be really bad. He could be furious. But from moment one when we pitched it to him, he said, “That will be really funny.
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