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plapp 's review for:
Live from New York: An Oral History of Saturday Night Live
by Tom Shales, James Andrew Miller
Second book I've read this year where Jim Downey comes across as a real dick. Which is too bad because he’s obviously a beloved and respected comedy genius.
This dragged towards the end for me, I didn’t realize how little I cared for SNL after ~1995. The real interesting folks with the best stories and perspectives were all in those first 20 years, it seems.
I didn’t know until I was halfway through that they came out with an updated 800-page edition in 2014. So I'll read the last 200 pages of that at some point and mess up my Goodreads stats.
This dragged towards the end for me, I didn’t realize how little I cared for SNL after ~1995. The real interesting folks with the best stories and perspectives were all in those first 20 years, it seems.
I didn’t know until I was halfway through that they came out with an updated 800-page edition in 2014. So I'll read the last 200 pages of that at some point and mess up my Goodreads stats.