Saturday Night Live

by Anne P. Beatts, Edie Baskin, John Head

Over sized PB-Gift Quality, no shelf wear, no scuffs, tight binding, clean pages, stated 1st Avon Edition-print, no marks, not ex lib or remainder, no spine crease, smoke/pet free home. Ships anywhere 7 days a week

Genres: Humor, Nonfiction, Comedy, Tv

Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

Reviews

[Hank Stuever · Rating 4 out of 5]

Studied this like it was scripture. It was full of scripts, photos and whole lot of description about how the show was made. Had some idea that I could quit school and go work for "SNL" and that Gilda Radner and I would be BFFs. I was 11 years old.

[Seth · Rating 4 out of 5]

What do you say about a book like this? It's a collection of scripts from early SNL sketches, back in the days of the Not Ready For Prime Time Players.

Obviously, it is as good as you find that kind of humor. Which means, it is as good as your sense of humor. The sketches are brilliant.

It includes the text of some great, classic sketches: Idi "VD" Amin, Puppy Uppers and Doggy Downers, Killer Bees, the great "Final Voyage of the Enterprise" Star Trek parody, the Jimmy Carter Call In, the Coneheads, and various bits of Weekend Update. It also includes the Lifer Follies sketch, which changed a lot of people's perceptions about Garret Morris.

It also includes two un-aired sketches, Placenta Helper and Planet of the Enormous Hooters (starring Raquel Welch). You may be able to guess why S&P didn't let them show those.

Along the way the book includes pictures (often of the sketches included), "handwritten" notes on the sketches, and bits of production notes like prop design.

[Jas N · Rating 4 out of 5]

I grabbed this book from a library sale when I was in junior high. It broke down the 4th wall like nothing I'd seen before. It really was my first glimpse at how a show is produced and what a script looks like vs what ends up on the screen. I produced sketches with my friends and I using these scripts as a basis. It helped me understand the format and the notes were especially telling of how things were changed or fixed or completely dropped. The comedy is there, but you have to be ready to read into it and let it play in your head. I really love this book.

[Angela Clayton · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the original script book from season one of the perrenial favorite that changed pop culture forever. The best book I ever bought for half a warm Moulson.

[Patrick · Rating 4 out of 5]

There is a book I love and it is not clear to me what the name is, but I think it is just Saturday Night Live. If you’re looking for it, you should search for Saturday Night Live, Host: Francisco Franco or maybe Saturday Night Live Franco but not James Franco edited by Anne Beatts and John Head Avon Books 1977 it is green?

In any case, you should look for it!

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[Jeannie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Blast from the past - with Bulushi, Chase, Radner and others. The book is put together in a scrapbook style with parts of scripts, many photos - even receipts. It brought back memories of Cone Heads, Bumble Bees and the best Weekend Update News team ever.