I've pretty much been TV and cable-free since fresh-out-of-high-school nearly 35 years ago, though I watched enough of other people's TVs to know I wasn't missing anything. Thank God I married a man who is as indifferent to TV as I am. For the past 20 years or so, we've had just TV with air reception, watched 24, Fox News Sunday for awhile, and local news in the mornings with coffee for 20 minutes or so. That was pretty much the extent of our TV experience; the ads were either the funniest/best things, or they were the most shocking and revealing things, about network TV.
Digital changed our exposure -- our "box" won't function and we're both too lazy to try to troubleshoot it enough to work right. So now our "TV" is just a venue for videos and DVDs.
But Eddie Murphy is one of the funniest guys ever born, especially in SNL's Golden Years. His "Gumby" ("I'm Gumby, dammit!") puts me in fits every time. If he ever did an honest spoof of Obama ... yipes, it would be hilarious. I'd love to hear of a conservative comedy troupe on cable ... I'd get the DVDs when they came out! And would glory in seeing all the advertisers who sponsored the cable channel and comedy troupe prosper and blossom!
I don’t know how to post a pic here, but here’s a link to Fey and Palin backstage at SNL:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/168845