I thought SNL writing team was massive and cannot really be matched (from seeing the round table reads), but like 3 or four writers who arrive like a month early in front of the host so they can get the feel for SNL and bounce idea’s off of each other. I always thought writing comedy is trial and error sometimes. It’s just throwing wet noodles at the wall and see what sticks. I think of them like a baseball and they aren’t going to get fired instantly because a bad run for a season.
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’m not a comedy writer so I can’t speak to that and I do think it’s a novel idea that would put money into hands of writers so I’m always for that but I don’t know how practical that is. I have seen hosts talk about late night production and I know that’s a very specific and streamlined process, probably more so as an almost nightly show, but television is a very high pressure industry. I also can’t imagine producers would be willing to let go of their decades of trial and error insights for a wet noodle approach, not all comedy translates well to TV or to the audience SNL is serving.