In the mid-70s, for instance, Brooks met with Lorne Michaels, who thought Brooks’ exuberant conceptual comedy was a perfect fit for his new live sketch show “Saturday Night Live” and asked him to host it. Brooks told Michaels that it would be more fun and interesting to have a new host every week, something that had never been done before. Rather than join the “SNL” cast as a performer, Brooks asked if he could show short films that he’d made, which retrained his fan base to think of him as a filmmaker and positioned him to leap to full-length theatrical movies.
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