Is Lorne Michaels going to produce a weeknight version of SNL?
No, no. He’s being an incredible team player, going above and beyond. NBC is set to lay off 5% to 10% of its work force over the next several months. How will that change your plans? That’s something that we are looking at right now, and we are assessing what we can do to make sure that what the viewer sees is not affected. We will deal with that over the next few weeks. To the degree we can do this through attrition is absolutely our goal, and hopefully, it will be minimal changes with regard to current employees. Scott Sassa has said that Garth Ancier did fine on the programming side of this job, but he couldn’t handle the business side of the position. I can’t talk about what happened before because I’m not familiar with that. I wasn’t here, and it’s neither here nor there. All I can say is that I think that, for the last 10 years, I have worked on both sides of the business in what I’ve done at Today and all of NBC News and I do have experience on both sides. Is comedy the biggest
