Daily Inspiration Quote by Geraldo Rivera

Getting “hit” by Saturday Night Live is the kind of complaint that doubles as a victory lap. Geraldo Rivera frames the show’s renewed attention as both nuisance and proof of relevance: if the comedians are back on you “on a regular basis,” you’re back in the bloodstream of the culture. The word choice is telling. “Hitting me” casts satire as a physical blow, a familiar posture for a journalist who’s built a career on confrontation and high-volume spectacle. Yet “again” is the tell: he misses it when it’s gone.

The flex is in the math. “My fourth decade” isn’t just a timeline; it’s a credential. Rivera is converting mockery into longevity, implying that being lampooned is an occupational hazard reserved for people who matter long enough to become a recurring character. Subtext: you can dislike the caricature and still recognize the show’s role as an unofficial scoreboard for notoriety. When SNL decides you’re worth a sketch, it’s acknowledging that you’ve become a type - a persona legible enough to compress into a few exaggerated tics.

There’s also a media-ecosystem wink here. A legacy TV journalist talking about being parodied by a legacy comedy institution is a kind of cross-brand symbiosis: SNL needs familiar archetypes; Rivera benefits from the oxygen of being a reference point. The line signals self-awareness without surrendering control: he’s “lampooned,” but he’s still counting the decades.