According to our own Vegas Confidential reporter Norm Clarke, there is actually talk of doing a Saturday Night Live spinoff right here in the Las Vegas Valley. Well, he doesn’t exactly have an exclusive on that story, which appears to have originally appeared in the New York Daily News’s gossip column.

I hope it happens.  It makes sense, because so many actors, musicians, and comics are based either here or in nearby Los Angeles (one hour by plane with 3 hours at LAX, or 4 hours by car).  But the producers and directors are going to have to make sure there’s a minimum of “bad seasons”:  there’s nothing like a Vegas crowd to enforce quality control.

It would be good for our economy, too.  After all, both locals and tourists would come see the show, and the tourists will spend money on hotels, food, and other entertainment.  Not that I am worried about filling those 40,000 hotel rooms we are expecting by the end of 2012, but it’s nice to know.  Also, the dozens if not hundreds of folks that work on the production — directors, writers, stage-hands, lighting directors, extras, sound engineers, and many other professionals –  will need places to live, and they will create more jobs by needing goods and services.

I think Martha Stewart said what I’m thinking:  “It’s a good thing.”

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