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From new york city. we just happen to have the producer of the program, members of his company. what should we look for on your program? anxiety. sepinwall: lorne michaels, this canadian comedy producer, was given free rein... hi. i'm lorne michaels, the producer of "saturday night." sepinwall: ...and he ultimately winds up hiring a bunch of improv comics. rehearsal of warmups. let's do 20 face-slaps. come on. slap. come on, make it hurt. george carlin was the first host, and wanted to be a permanent host. nice to see you. welcome. and thanks for joining us live. there were a lot of names band...

>> you have this generation of comedy nerds who don't even know that they're comedy nerds. >> this is no more. it has ceased to be. >> "monty python" turned out to break so many rules. i mean, it changes everything. just like with the beatles, you can say, "oh, they came after the beatles." look at "saturday night live," you look at sctv. oh, after. after "monty python." >> beginning october 11th, saturday night will open up a whole new live venture from new york city. we just happen to have the producer of the program and members of his company. what should we look for on your program? >> anx...