Crossposted on Newsbusters.
The following exchange was aired on NBC’s February 15, 2015 Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Red Carpet special:
CARSON DALY: You know, just three short weeks after 9/11 - your always mayor to me I gotta say - you said that this institution needs to, needs to continue and get back in business and it did. Tell me about that night.
RUDY GIULIANI: Well I thought that was one of the most patriotic moments for this show, maybe for America, very unifying. Lorne [Michaels] gave me a great line. As we finished God Bless America, he came up to me and he said “Is it all right if we are funny?” I said “Oh I guess you could try to start now.” And, but it was his - I want to make sure, you know Brian Williams, all this stuff. I want to make sure you understand that was his line. He wrote it. I read it. I was not smart enough to have that line.