Right after the attacks on 9/11, NYC Mayor Rudoph Giulani appeared on Saturday Night Live.
It was the only occasion that I’m away of in American television in which a popular television show had to get permission from the government to do comedy.
Producer Lorne Michaels asked Giuliani “Can we be funny?” Giuliani replied with excellent timing, “Why start now?
It’s hard to find this clip anywhere on the Internet, but it may be on Netflix, the “deep web” or in a NSA database.
Anyway, here are two excellent Post-9/11 clips from comedians.
David Letterman’s first show after 9/11. CBS keeps taking it down so this one is subtitled in Italian
