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45495, Not so fast. In Box Office/Viewer, ILC demolishes SNL.
Posted by Orbit_Established, Tue Jan-30-07 12:10 PM

Which is more fair, because it controls for the fact that
SNL had hundreds of millions more viewers during that
time period.

With less fans, the cast of ILC made more impact
per viewer. Not insignificant.

You guys are simply deciding to be bad at math when
it exposes the SNL cast's mediocrity.



>The five years that In Living Color was on, here's a short
>list of who was on SNL:
>
>Mike Myers, Chris Farley, Chris Rock, Al Franken, Adam
>Sandler, Rob Schneider. David Spade, Robert Smigel, Phil
>Hartman, Norm Macdonald, Jay Mohr, Sarah Silverman, Janeane
>Garofalo.
>
>That's better than ILC in box office. (Every other measure is
>subjective)
>---
>
>Personally, I don't get why people feel the need to argue this
>one when the answer seems obvious. I'll say it once again, In
>Living Color was comparable to the best eras of SNL and much
>better than the worst years of SNL.
>