"[sam] Kinison, when he started out, he'd come to Canada when I was first starting, and he'd always [bomb]."

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The only two TV shows I saw do that, where they don't warm them up and you can really bomb, was Saturday Night Live - and that's why it gets a lot of heat, too. Obviously it gets criticism fairly, too. But a lot of it is because Lorne [Michaels] lets the audience decide and doesn't force them to laugh.

— Norm MacDonald