[Ads-l] (not) ready for prime time

[Jesse Sheidlower]

Sorry, I should have actually looked at the OED entry, which acknowledges this in the etymology at sense level.

Jesse Sheidlower

On Thu, Jul 03, 2025 at 12:44:59PM -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> The first episode of Saturday Night Live, on 11 October 1975, credited the cast onscreen as "The Not for Ready Prime-Time Players!".
> 
> It doesn't look like there's a (free) clip of this online, but there's a full transcript here:
> 
> https://snl.fandom.com/wiki/October_11,_1975/Transcript
> 
> Jesse Sheidlower
> 
> On Thu, Jul 03, 2025 at 12:32:17PM -0400, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > OED: 1977
> > 
> > 1976 _Los Angeles Herald-Examiner_ (Apr. 24) A-3 [GenealogyBank]: READY FOR
> > PRIME TIME Super Marathoners...warm up...prior to cross-country run.
> > 
> > 1976 _Columbus [O.] Dispatch_ (Sept. 19) D-9 [GenealogyBank]: NOT READY FOR
> > PRIME TIME...One citizen in the audience...urged the council to ask for a
> > portable color television camera for a community access channel. But
> > Council Chairman John Coleman was unimpressed.
> > 
> > JL
> > 
> > -- 
> > "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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