During a recent appearance on the Stories with Brisco and Bradshaw podcast, former WWE creative team writer Brian Gewirtz recalled when Vince McMahon compared WWE to Saturday Night Live.
Since its inception in 1975, SNL has been broadcast on television. Only three wrestlers—Hulk Hogan, The Rock (five times), and John Cena—have served as the show’s hosts.
“Vince, I know, took a stance at a certain point where it’s like, ‘Well this is an entertainment show on television,'” Gewirtz said. “‘We’ve got to compare it to “Saturday Night Live,”‘ which is almost, almost, you know, at least in the ballpark of the same comp, as far as a long-running institution of a show that has a revolving cast and a revolving set of writers, and has the stars and the up-and-coming people.”
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