Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, as Told By Its Stars, Writers and Guests

Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, as Told By Its Stars, Writers and Guests

James Andrew Miller, Tom Shales

Language: English

Pages: 435

ISBN: 2:00048317

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


The "New York Times" bestselling oral history of "Saturday Night Live" that finally reveals what really went on backstage, on the set, in the writers' offices and on the town is now in paperback.

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nothing had gotten done. He was just really drunk. He’s at the piano in the read-through room playing and playing, and my office was the office closest to the piano. And he plays the piano for like a real long time, and again he’s really drunk, so I take Phil Hartman aside and I go, “Phil, watch this.” Phil stands outside my office, I go into my office, and I SLAM the door as hard as I can. And Harrison jumped about three feet off the bench — and finally left. So that’s my George Harrison story.

get back into learning how to laugh and cry on the same day, because they’re going to be doing it for a long time. It was a period of time in which I knew I couldn’t move people back to normal, but maybe we could at least get them to start doing the things they normally did, to be able to deal with some of the pain they were going through. One of the ways you get through a horrible catastrophic event — like if you lose your mother or your father or a loved one — is you grieve, you mourn, and

many times he’s seen Jack Nicholson that week. It was like, “I was just out with Jack.” “Oh, you mean Onassis?” “No! That’s Jack-ee, boy.” PENNY MARSHALL, Guest Performer: My mother always said she wanted her ashes spread over Broadway, because she was a tap dancing teacher in the basement of her building in the Bronx. I remember she wanted us to make sure her eyelashes were on. My brother thought there should be a party with tap dancing, which they did do but I didn’t go to. So I was in New

so the word went forth from network president Herbert Schlosser: Develop a new late-night show for Saturday. In 1974, when the decision to annex late Saturday nights was made, nobody knew what was coming. Ideas that circulated among NBC executives included a weekly variety show hosted by impressionist Rich Little, then under contract to the network. Somebody suggested Linda Ronstadt as costar. Even bland Bert Convy, actor and game-show host, was considered. But all those cockeyed notions were

Belushi, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Laraine Newman, Bill Murray, and Garrett Morris reinvented television there; because the place echoes with the inspired hilarity of Belushi’s mad Samurai, Aykroyd’s fusty male prostitute, Radner’s loopy Loopner, Chase’s stumble-bumbling Gerald Ford, Murray’s capricious Oscar-picker, Morris’s shouted headlines for the hearing impaired, Newman’s curiously sexy portrayal of young Connie Conehead, teenager from outer space. People always point to

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