Tuesday Night Live

Tuesday Night Live is a television show produced by Lorne Michaels (or an unnamed caricature of Michaels) and for one episode hosted by Krusty the Clown. Among its sketches are "The Big Ear Family", an act about a family of people with very large ears which lasts for more than 12 minutes. Krusty openly admits that the episode he hosts has a poor-quality final half hour, similar to how some episodes of SNL have weak sketches that air after Weekend Update (the show's spoof news segment).
Bart Simpson mentions that he misses Joe Piscopo, implying that he was a cast member on TNL at one point, though if Tuesday Night Live's history is similar to Saturday Night Live's, this means that Joe Piscopo was on Tuesday Night Live between 1980 (when the show was doing poorly due to a change in management and new cast members that weren't held in high regard compared to the 1970s cast) and 1984 (when the show was doing reasonably well, but was starting to hit a slump again because the cast was changing).
== Behind the Laughter ==
Tuesday Night Live is an obvious parody of the long-running NBC sketch show, Saturday Night Live, which coincidentally, had Simpsons writers as sketch writers, particularly George Meyer, John Swartzwelder, Conan O'Brien, Ian Maxtone-Graham, Spike Feresten, and Jon Vitti.
The commercial intermission title card is based on ones used during seasons 14 (1988-1989 season) and 15 (1989-1990 season) of SNL.
The joke about the last half of TNL being "a real garbage dump" and "The Big Ear Family" lasting 12 minutes despite having thin comedic material are all common complaints about the show's humor (particularly during the early-to-mid 1990s episodes).
== Appearances ==
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