almost everything i've done contains pythonium in some form. >> it had a huge influence on the new generation of comedy coming up in america who saw that, and we're like, holy [ bleep ], we're behind. >> live from new york, it's saturday night. >> there is a game of dominos you can play from your show of shows to 1975, and saturday night live. on another level, though, "saturday night live" was a whole new era. >> boom-baa-boom. >> the tone of the show was very much influenced by younger people. so now we had our music on, stuff we liked. >> let's go, jets, let's swing. >> lorne had made the show hip, he made america less square with "saturday night live," it was just the time. it was time for it. we hadn't had anything like it. >> before that, late night television was just talk shows you watched as you fell asleep. this was the idea that late night was a place where you could do things that might get you in trouble with standards earlier in the day. >> captain, the enemy starship is within electroscanning distance. >> what does it look like? >> here it is, captain.