How did Saturday Night Live change TV sketch comedy?

How did Saturday Night Live change TV sketch comedy?

Robert Morton (Current E.P. of Mind of Mencia) gives expert video advice on: What is a 'sketch show'?; What are the origins of sketch comedy?; How did Saturday Night Live change TV sketch comedy? and more...

It obviously broadened the scope of topics that you could do comedy about. There was a time when it was about domestic comedy. It was about your kids, it was about your wife, and it was about the jobs. We could talk about politics. We're allowed to blast the president, we're allowed to do sketches about that. We're allowed to do sketches about drugs, about sex, about this, about that. I think these people took the frame of reference to new heights. Saturday Night Live was able to do it on a mass distributed basis and it was really impressive.