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Ad who would work with an armorer -- closely -- also a supervising producer -- and i really relieved the actors job is always to be an artist, a performer, to think about the work of telling a story, in kind of a make believe, artistic endeavor. endeavor. the armorers job is to be a safety check on everything on that actors behalf. that is how it always -- at snl. and the armorer, when i worked at snl, took that off my plate, my very full plate. and i was always grateful to the armorers for his ...

We still have liz, eric, and -- lets bring in dean. we were talking about betty whites comedic timing. im curious. i know theres so many female medians out there, who say she was -- she was their north star. she was the person that this were trying to be. she inspired so many. >> she did. having liz on, katy, to talk about that was great. i worked at snl not when betty white hosted, but i worked there with tina fey, amy poehler and other great performers. you could see the love by them when bett...

Youd assume you were super happy, but you were blue. you felt almost like an imposter. >> yeah. >> can you talk about that? because its hard to imagine with someone with your level of talent feeling like an imposter. >> you have to remember is my level of talent is im good at sitting behind a desk telling jokes, but theres a different talent to being a huge star at snl. ultimately it work,ed out by the time i got to the update desk, but the things that make them so great were not skills i had. i...

Stand for either candidate, are they? >> very good point. satire, you have insight hopefully as well as comedy. in this case, there were tough jokes about clinton but on snl, i think what might have really ticked off trump was the digital video about his daughter and his kids, the women in his life basically saying melania is going to leave him after the election. i can understand that would have been very personal for him and he would have taken offense to that but it gets back to that instinct...

Asleep. they investigated him for criminal charges. ultimately said were not going to charge him. i think in america we dont send people to jail for making what i might call an honest mistake. however, if they take his blood and they find out he is on some sort of medication that he shouldnt be on illicit drugs, if they see on his phone that he was texting at the time i think he could be in quite a bit of trouble. >> well his on line blogging warning of the dangers out there help him or hurt him...

For us to face up to the fact that when countries are threatened, oftentimes they act rashly in ways that in retrospect were wrong. >> now the president obama is saying that there were clearly wrongs done here. do you think that there will ever be prosecutions? >> no, i dont think so. america rarely holds its officials responsible. in fact the maximum responsibility thats placed is publicity about what people did. if this report had come out in 2009, when president obama was suggesting that offi...

How he speaks to that this evening. because usually its fun and games. its jokes. >> yeah. >> youre looking at live pictures now the at white house, obviously the president preparing to get ready for the white house correspondents dinner. it will be interesting to see if he releases a statement before heading off to the white house correspondents dinner or if he indeed talks about it. but again, this is usually comedy, seth myers at snl also going to be there tonight, all fun and games a bit, bu...

People. its only ten questions long. all answers are strictly confidential. lets take a few minute to fill it out together. question five. what bank do you use? what is your atm number? if some member of this household had to die so that others might live, who should that be? now, question nine is only for those whose primary language is spanish. >> yep. >> thats good. >> jim downey is great, isnt he? >> the great writer at snl. >> you can always tell. you can always tell when jim downey puts hi...