"You get a lot more authority when the work force doesn't think it's amateur hour on the top floor."

Sad to say, that all added up to the feeling at first of amateur hour.

The administration's handling of Afghanistan policy has been amateur hour.

What is happening on the floor today was a demonstration of major amateur hour.

Self-taught the key players may be, but this is no amateur hour.

But he later added: "By 2005 amateur hour will be over in superannuation management."

Williamson went on to call the Obama administration's conduct of foreign policy, "amateur hour."

"I think everything that's happened has confirmed that it's a real amateur hour.

"This is really amateur hour to the Nth degree now," she said.

The religious right sees dreams of a breakaway party as amateur hour.

It was strictly amateur hour, but for a full 90 minutes the farce continued.

"So far it's amateur hour - no illegitimate children yet."

And the surveillance in Britain makes America look like amateur hour.

He began his broadcasting career at the age of 12 as a guest for a Pittsburgh-area children's amateur hour.

This profusion of amateur hours must be a product of the times.

But his efforts to sell the public on his plan to overhaul the health care system has looked more like amateur hour.

While the standard of surfing has skyrocketed in recent years, its administration and coverage are still amateur hour.

While popular programs like the Amateur Hour provided entertainment, he also wanted to further the mission of providing information.

"It's amateur hour on making foreign policy," said Rubin.

"Like cable station amateur hour," one reporter, who requested anonymity, told me.

One person called them examples of "amateur hour."

Pelosi, though, denied the charge, calling the vote "amateur hour."

The amateur era may have ended a decade and a half ago, but amateur hour is still with us.