Comedy has changed significantly over the past 10 years. And I’m not even talking about political correctness and what you’re ‘allowed’ to joke about. Thanks to advances in technology, filming and editing are so cheap anyone can create content. And social media have given creators the bandwidth to reach millions, if not billions of viewers. The fact is, SNL, like all established network comedy programming, has more competition than ever. Solid competition at that.

When I first started posting comedy sketches online over a decade ago, I would rush to get a new video out by Saturday morning at the latest – out of fear that Saturday Night Live might do the same joke and then I would be out of time, money and in the terrible position of being accused of stealing jokes.

For at least the past five years, I haven’t had that thought. I don’t even see SNL as competition any more. Nowadays, whenever I’m about to post a new sketch, I’m praying that Ryan Long, Kyle Dunnigan and other independent comedy creators don’t beat me to the premise. If our stuff bombs, well, at least our bombs are way cheaper than a Bone Thugs-N-Harmony parody a quarter-century in the making.