but for those of you that wrote in that you hated our pilot show -- wait until you see this one. >> "that was the week that was" was an innovator. that show set forward you could make the current news funny and do it in a hip way. >> with the candidacy of senator barry goldwater, the republican party is on their way back. and who knows, one day it may even go forward. >> the insensibility was more tame in a sense. more controlled. more dry. it was witty but wasn't really challenging the power structure. >> our top story tonight, president ford is finally over that stubborn week-long cold -- >> stubborn week-long cold! >> before "saturday night live," everybody was so schmaltzy, "saturday night live" was the first show that came along that had a sensibility of people who had grown up on tv. it was making fun of tv. >> this idea satirizing the news, we needed it. vietnam was going on.