Notes
William F. Buckley. (Buckley responded to the invitation, “Not only do I refuse to appear, I resent having been asked.”
People always think that if the process was better organized, it would work better. They don’t realize that there’s more invention in disorder.”
Let your enemy bury himself. —Bernie Brillstein
Higgins thinks that he outsources the good-news-giving because it empowers the actual giver: “The new hire will remember for the rest of his life, this person told me I got the job.” It’s related to one of Michaels’s core teachings, which is telling people to spread credit around. Credit, he likes to say, is the easiest thing to give away.
He spoke of “indelible sketches and seminal cast members,” and how “the collective remembering of them connects us to other people as profoundly as any classic moment in cinema or literature. We pass and trade the language of SNL back and forth like some family heirloom we share with the entire world.”