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For Late Night’s Trump Critics, the Escape Routes Are Vanishing

Weiserguy said:
I'm sure there are plenty of viewers in "flyover" country. Just keep in mind that they're always shooting for an 18-34 demo audience. Anyone who has any recollection of John Belushi or Gilda Radner is way out of the demo.
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I'm pretty sure that kids in that demo are doing things far more interesting on Saturday nights than watching SNL. I know I was when I was that age. I used to tape SNL and watch it the next day since I was rarely home at 10:30 PM CT on a Saturday night.
 
KeithE4 said:
I used to tape SNL and watch it the next day since I was rarely home at 10:30 PM CT on a Saturday night.
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You must have owned the very first Betamax VCR. Either that or you were one of the 7 proud owners of Cartrivision. ;)

Weiserguy said:
However, Weekend Update is a show-within-the-show, and is often very funny in its own right. If you only tuned in for that one segment, it would be worth your time.
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Reminds me of people tuning in to The Tracey Ullman Show just for the Simpsons shorts.

Poor Tracey.

KeithE4 said:
1990s.
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Seconded.
 
KeithE4 said:
I'm pretty sure that kids in that demo are doing things far more interesting on Saturday nights than watching SNL. I know I was when I was that age. I used to tape SNL and watch it the next day since I was rarely home at 10:30 PM CT on a Saturday night.
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I second this. I can recall being in college and watching Letterman was the cool in-thing to do. It's what everyone talked about the next day. And a big chunk of the audience for daytime TV included college kids. Today people in that demo have little interest in traditional television at all.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
I second this. I can recall being in college and watching Letterman was the cool in-thing to do. It's what everyone talked about the next day. And a big chunk of the audience for daytime TV included college kids. Today people in that demo have little interest in traditional television at all.
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Price is Right has always had young contestants yet geezer viewers, but college kids skipping class have always been undermeasured by Neilsen
 
FreddyE1977 said:
I second this. I can recall being in college and watching Letterman was the cool in-thing to do. It's what everyone talked about the next day. And a big chunk of the audience for daytime TV included college kids. Today people in that demo have little interest in traditional television at all.
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When I was in college Letterman was still doing the weather.

Actually, before that I remember the name. I think he was on a variety show hosted by Mary Tyler Moore.
 
vchimpanzee said:
When I was in college Letterman was still doing the weather.

Actually, before that I remember the name. I think he was on a variety show hosted by Mary Tyler Moore.
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He was a cast member on MTM's short-lived variety show called Mary.

He was likewise featured in the summer replacement series starring the Starland Vocal Band (Afternoon Delight).
And of course he had the disastrous foray into daytime talk at NBC.
 


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