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Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, as Told By Its Stars, Writers and Guests
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Binding: Paperback
Edition: 1st Back B
Format: Bargain Price
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 656
Publication Date: October 01, 2003
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Editorial Review:
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!
In their own words, a galaxy of stars--including Mike Myers, Chris Rock, Bill Murray, Tom Hanks, Adam Sandler, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Martin, Dana Carvey, Tina Fey, Molly Shannon, Al Franken, and other members of Saturday Night Live's extended family--recall a quarter-century's worth of great backstage stories, behind-the-scenes gossip, feuds, foibles, drugs, sex, struggles, and calamities. The result: a page-turner that reveals how and why SNL has become the longest-running television comedy of all time.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Do You Like The Behind-The-Scenes Low Down?
I usually write reviews of books that deal with theology and Christian apologetics and other really side-splitting kinds of subjects that, I suspect, provide endless amusement and delight to both of the people who have read them.
But I'm wandering outside my usual field because I found this history of a culturally influential television institution to be quite interesting. It is, at times, funny and-reflecting the reality of what happened-at times, sad.
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Rating:  - Saturday Night Live
Book is a great source of commentarys from the people who worked on the shows over the years. It does not deal in a narrative form, only blocks of comments by people. Little detail on specific sketches or true history, more like a collection of things remembered by people involved with the show. It made a great addition to my other books, and is enjoyable on its own.
Rating: - A dense history of SNL
Virtually everything that has ever happened on SNL is contained within this book. A brilliant narrative assembled almost entirely of interview fragments from people involved with the show, the book is a crash course in SNL history from it's inception to the modern era.
Particularly interesting is the exposure of cast conflict bubbling over onto the show into hilarious sketches, such as Chevy Chase's rise to stardom and Belushi's jealousy becoming a cold open for the show.
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Rating: - Live from New York: An Interesting behind the scenes look
Background:
The authors interview most of the living cast and crew from SNL and gather/mold the various responses into a kind of oral history of what went on behind the scenes of the show from day one. The book also takes a look at what was happening at the network level and the encounters that Michaels and the other producers of the show had when corporate sensibilites clashed with comic creativity. The version I read also has an extra 30 pages or so of what various people think about Lorne Michaels.
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Rating: - Live from New York
This is a big sprawling nonfiction book told in highly readable "sound-bites" more than 25 years after the heyday of the ground-breaking television show Saturday Night Live. The author rounds up everyone involved (with the exception of the poor dead people like John Belushi, Gilda Radner, and Chris Farley). So you get an interesting then-and-now view. The participants put their work into perspective with the passing of time. One thing that impressed me was how much this show has influenced American pop culture. ... Read More
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