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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nQGBZQrtT0 This Saturday Night Live skit features Alec Baldwin playing Donald Trump and Kate Mckinnon playing Hillary Clinton. Saturday Night Live is a Live show by the second. There is no 7 second delay like in other live television shows. The article called "Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers," talks about how speech is irreversible. In Saturday night Live this is the case. The actors read off cue cards so if they make a mistake they won't be able to take it back. The article also touches on how revision is very important and it must not be dismissed. Rewriting is also very important because it's very difficult to get something right on the first try. All the jokes Baldwin and McKinnon say took time. The writers have to write this in a short amount of time considering the debate happens a few days before the show goes live. The comedy in the skit focuses on making fun of the candidates and their fl...