In the 1970s, my older brother and I fantasized about being on Saturday Night Live, then in its brilliant first heyday. He was an actor in
New York, and I was a writer in Los Angeles. We were both in our early twenties, and we were both obsessed with the show. We would watch it together, and we would talk about it all the time.

I was a writer for a couple of years, and I was writing a lot