First of all, it wasn't Alan King's idea. He was a hired comedy consultant. It was the brainchild of Howard and Roone. Next, you are wrong in saying that Bill Murray was on the other Saturday Night Live, He, and Chris Guest, and Bill's brother, Brian Doyle-Murray were regulars on Howard's show. They were called the Prime Time Players, and because Lorne Michaels thought it was clever, three months after SNL debuted at the Sullivan Theatre, he decide to call his group the NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME PLAYERS. Let's get the story straight. I remember every thing. I should. I produced it.

--Rupert

I see the show's producer has had a knee-jerk reaction to my warranted criticism of his short-lived show. I'll handly this in short order:

Never said it was Alan King's idea. I said "Alan King and the others at ABC got the idea..." That leaves the blame open for others at ABC, such as Roone and Howard himself.

Never said anything at all about Bill Murray at all on this page. To the extent that I said he appeared on the "real" Saturday Night Live, well everyone knows that (except perhaps you).

That's a nice anecdote about the Prime Time and Not Ready for Prime Time Players, but it is not as if my brief article (which is all this obscure footnote in broadcasting deserved) is inaccurate without it. I should know. I wrote it.

In short, the story was straight before you arrived and remains intact after this not-ready-for-prime-time post of yours. Feel free to share other tidbits with the other three people who liked this show as such thoughts work there way back through your fragile memory, but read anything I write at least three times before responding to it in future.