How Saturday Night Live returned to TV after 9/11

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• Gingerlegs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This was such a crazy time in my life.

  I was 18 when it happened, still in high school. Trying to figure out what my life was going to be and now, will I be drafted!?

  Snl at this time was a godsend. My best friend and I would spend the night, watch Conan’s/letterman/snl and didn’t really know what was gonna happen.

  Crazy memories, thank you

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I assume this is when they asked Rudy G for permission to laugh again. My how his reputation had been run to shot since then.

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  • _bug0ut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Alcoholism will do crazy things to people and their brains.

    I keep going back to how the guy who wielded RICO so cleverly to wreck the mob, a successful “PR campaign” post 9/11 that dubbed him the “Mayor of America,” and a serious potential presidential candidate ended up leaking oil out of his scalp in front of a landscaping place, being the mouthpiece for a sort-of wannabe mafia-esque organization and eventually getting bitchslapped with RICO charges himself.

    I think it’s one part alcoholism, one part grasping wildly for the glory days, and possibly one part dude just getting wackier with age. There’s probably a feeling of invincibility he has from the highest highs he reached in his life and maybe even a bit of smug “I know what’s best for this country, I was it’s goddamn Mayor for the love of fuck!”

    Whatever it is, fuck that guy. Time to piss off, Rudy. You’re embarrassing yourself and the rest of us by extension.

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  • BillyZane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Seriously. He was seen as a hero back then.

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  • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain

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