NBC Plans Live Episode of 'The West Wing'

This isn't the first time that a television show has been aired "live", but this one sounds a bit lame. On Nov. 6, "The West Wing" is going to air a live episode that's a presidential debate. It sounds pretty boring to begin with but it also seems kind of cowardly on NBC's part. If you're going to do something risky like a "live" show, how about something a little more energetic? Maybe I'm wrong. NBC has had some pretty entertaining live debates, like the 2000 SNL debate between Gore and Bush:

Jim Lehrer: Which beings us to our final question. Governor Bush, both you and the Vice-President have offered plans to provide prescription drugs for the elderly. What makes your plan superior?

Al Gore:
Jim, I'd like to interrupt here and answer that question as if it were my turn to speak. Jim, let me tell about a friend of mine. [ holds up a picture of an elderly woman ] Her name is Etta Munsen. She's 94, she's a widow living on Social Security in Sparta, Tennessee. Etta was born with only one kidney. She also suffers from poilo, spinal menengitis, lung, liver, and pancreatic cancer, an enlarged heart, diabetes, and a rare form of styctic acne. Now, several recent strokes, along with an unfortunate shark attack, have left her paralyzed and missing her right leg under the knee. Just last week she woke from a coma to find that, due to a hospital mix-up, her left arm had been amputated, infected with syphillis, and then reattached.

Jim Lehrer:
Mr. Vice-President, we are short of time..

At Yahoo News

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