Variety did a count of the number of minutes Trump was on - http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/donald-trump-saturday-night-live-12-minutes-1201636040/ It was also reported that Trump, like all guest hosts, had reviewed the outlines of the sketches to be used during the show and rejected many of them.
On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 7:47 PM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 12:41 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Then it hit me - was it possible that the writers really were >>> intentionally tanking the show, as their own protest at being forced to use >>> Trump? I am sure this will be a big ratings winner for NBC, but it had to >>> make most of the cast and crew feel dirty - not because he is politically >>> controversial, but because Trump himself is just such a hack. >>> >> >> I would never assume that if only because professionals don't put their >> livelihoods at risk like that. Staff writers do not have tenure and if the >> effort is noticeably lacking there will be consequences. What is more >> likely is that Trump and his handlers micromanaged the writing process and >> took out any sharp lines. >> >> Not to contradict what I previously wrote, but I know of a handful of > instances when writers intentionally -- well -- lowered their own level of > quality in an effort to make on-air talent look bad. There are tales of > revenge against those who crossed the picket line during the last WGA > strike, for instance. Writers did, indeed, put their livelihoods as risk > because they felt the subject(s) of their writing were no longer worthy of > their words. I just think, in the case of the SNL staff, for them to write > any lower they'd have to resort to knock-knock jokes. > > > -- > Kevin M. (RPCV) > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
