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I do a show about humor, in theory anyway. And I definitely inherited my dad's
sense of humor and we all kind of did in the family like it rubbed off on all of us because
when we have dinner sometimes
it'll just be like two hours where we're, you know, joking around and like
my dad will have a cat and be like "Look!" and make the cat play piano.
I'm Mike Cronin, I'm a junior Arts Management Major,
and this is my story.
I am twenty-one and I'm from Old Sayville, Connecticut
so like
right next door.
I stayed at SUNY Purchase because (a) I just have friends here and like it, but (b)
super easy to get into the city and (c) an Arts Management major gives you so much free time.
It's just a really, really good major to have.
My first real thoughts were just like "Wow,
kid
this is the beginning of being on your own, in four years you're going to have
an apartment and maybe a landlord but other than that."
so it's just like "Okay,
time to, you know, knuckle up."
My favorite part is...
...Oh! You know what my favorite part is for real, I really like the faculty
No, they're really great and really know their stuff, and it's
inspiring, like "Wow, you really know what you're doing."
Yea, no, I have two sisters and I'm actually in the middle. One of them is
older, graduated college, the other just went into college.
I love reading Batman comics.
I love playing with Legos.
I love geeking out about
late night television,
I love reading articles about it online and I've got a little library, it's just so fun.
I love eating food.
It's great.
Whoever designed that, A+.
Purchase Late Night is, I mean it's,
it's a late night show, we didn't stretch ourselves with the show's title.
Um...
And it's hosted by me, it's written by, I think we have nine writers,
we have a head writer which is really cool. We start off with a cold open
what is one of my favorite parts, it's a two to three minute sketch.
We do some monologues and we do some more sketches, but we get
four guests a show now, which is a ton,
but I really love it because you get a lot; the show changes really quickly
essentially every interview is like six minutes long and every single one is completely
different
so we're trying to hit a wider audience.
So i found online at buy one cue card
I found this guy called "Cue Card Guy", Wally Ferriston, and I emailed him and said
"Hey could I have some cards? I could pay you." and he had me call him the next day, and he said
"Yea, let's just talk about it. It sounds great, it sounds awesome, you have a show to do this." Out of the blue he just asked me one day
"Hey do you ever, uh...
Do you ever have Friday's off? So I could help?" And I was like "Yeah!"
So he went from giving us cards to being one of my favorite guests. Probably my favorite. And then,
you know, having me work SNL on Thursdays, which is great.
I honestly think the reason I enjoy it so much is because without it I would be a hermit
in my room
I've met so many people on campus, not
Nat Geo levels of meeting people on campus but I know a lot of guys like
"Hey! Yea we had the band on show, or you came on with your project."
I think working with this show, and making the network
these aren't the things that will make me famous, I'm just really using this to get used to
the stress of television and the deadlines constantly
and just getting acclimated to like "We've got a show to do every single week, always. We've got to go, we've got to go,
we've got to do this, we've got to get that in, you've got to call them."
So that's what I'm using because I really wanna work in television. I have almost
more fun sometimes working behind the camera
as an editor or writer or producer
so I think those are my goals, really, with making the network and organizing the show and everything.
I totally do have a girlfriend and she's the reason the show is live
she is
fantastically supportive
I think it's even like sometimes she's
unhealthily supportive, like she'll have a really big test
the next day but she will instead help me write some monologue
jokes.
So one of the things with LNN is not so much creating something that's totally news, it's
finding something that's already going on
and filming it.
And this worked really, really well with one of my, he's a friend of mine now,
Andrew Rivera and Gerald Lane
uh... I bumped into them and they have a radio show
so I just went over and brought some cameras, and they did the exact same show they've always been doing
but now it was on camera
and it wound up working really well, I was really happy. It's basically
exactly how I want LNN to go,
to find and improve
student
productions,
so I think it's really cool.
So I think that's my biggest contribution is the few people
who, Purchase Late Night is able to actually improve their day.
I think that's my biggest accomplishment.
I'm Mike Cronin.
And we're all
part of the PSGA.