10 December 2004

Just a quick question

I've always wondered about this, and tonight when I saw it again it reminded me:

Re-runs of "Saturday Night Live" used to be on Comedy Central, and now are on E!  SNL is a 90 minute show, but both networks cut each episode down to an hour.  So a full third of the original is cut for re-broadcast.

I've noticed that regardless of the channel the re-runs are shown on, the two musical performances make it into each cut episode.  The one I saw tonight had Bruce Springsteen on.

Why include the musical performances in the re-run?  If you have to cut something out of a comedy show, why not eliminate the parts that are intentionally not funny?

And you wonder what it is that keeps me up so late at night...

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