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A review by jazzhurt
Live from New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests by Tom Shales, James Andrew Miller
4.0
I don’t think I’ve read a book in an oral history style (other than Daisy Jones and the Six, but that’s fiction). I really dig it. It really puts me in the mindset of feeling like I was there too.
I’ve watched SNL pretty much every week since I was a teen so it’s really cool to get this insight. Once it gets into the Jimmy Fallon, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler era to the more current times, I knew a lot the stories, but it’s still cool to get this behind the scenes kind of access. The early days were W I L D. And reading about so much death is a downer.
The Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Fred Armisen, Bobby Moynihan, Will Forte, Andy Samberg, Jason Sudeikis era was my favorite. I got sad all over again reading about this whole group of people leaving the show.
In regards to hosting, Gwenyth Paltrow wrote, “It’s great fun for me to play a white girl who wants to talk like a ghetto chick. I never get to do stuff like that otherwise.”
Ummmm *side eye*
I’ve watched SNL pretty much every week since I was a teen so it’s really cool to get this insight. Once it gets into the Jimmy Fallon, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler era to the more current times, I knew a lot the stories, but it’s still cool to get this behind the scenes kind of access. The early days were W I L D. And reading about so much death is a downer.
The Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Fred Armisen, Bobby Moynihan, Will Forte, Andy Samberg, Jason Sudeikis era was my favorite. I got sad all over again reading about this whole group of people leaving the show.
In regards to hosting, Gwenyth Paltrow wrote, “It’s great fun for me to play a white girl who wants to talk like a ghetto chick. I never get to do stuff like that otherwise.”
Ummmm *side eye*