i am hans. and i am franz. and we just want to pump you up! levine: a lot of things that they could do on "saturday night live" they couldn't do on a sitcom. the humor was more daring and more satirical. and it was political. you still have, uh, 50 seconds left mr. vice president. well let me just sum up, on track, stay the course, a thousand points of light. stay the course. governor dukakis, rebuttal? i can't believe i'm losing to this guy. [ laughter ] [ telephone ringing ] i'll get it. oh, geez. it's garry shandling's show. connelly: people were taking all the old principles of comedy and trying to turn them into something new. we spent years and years watching sitcoms and dramas and talk shows by then. we knew them by heart that if somebody played on that and parodied it, we got it instantly. yeah, i appreciate you coming in under these conditions lewis. i really do. you want to hold the credits.