SNL legend explains how short attention spans are having a direct impact on comedy

Legendary comedian and actor Kevin Nealon performed on "Saturday Night Live" for almost a decade, acting in some of the series' most iconic sketches. After 40 years in the business, he recently spoke with Fox News Digital about the current state of stand-up comedy and where he feels the industry is headed. Though the medium has evolved into something bigger than ever before, Nealon described the attention spans of modern comedy audiences as much shorter -- something that those involved in the business of humor have had to cater to. "When I started comedy, it was totally different. And it was a totally different time and generation. And it was not as much short attention span. Like, I look back at some of the sketches on'SNL,' and they're a lot longer than they are now because of the short attention span, and a lot of people don't watch'SNL' at that time. They watch it on YouTube, snippets of it," said the comedian, pointing to social media as something that's gotten hundreds of millions of people accustomed to consuming content in short clips and blurbs.