Doug Hill

“Rock music carried the Woodstock Nation’s banner while television represented much of what the bands and their audience stood against. More than a wasteland, TV was the idiot engine of the Establishment, electronic opiate of the consumerist masses, and thus a favorite object of ridicule and contempt.”
― Doug Hill, Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live

“Like the Beatles, Python not only had humor and style, they had nerve: They dared to break the rules and got away with it. Python was hip and smart, and they didn’t underestimate their audience. They turned traditional comedy inside out, making jokes in the middle of sketches about the sketches themselves, mixing film segments with videotape segments, ending sketches in the middle and moving on to something else, never stopping even as the credits rolled. “It was miraculous to me, a revelation,” Lorne said later. “It seemed that once again the winds of change were blowing from England.”
― Doug Hill, Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live