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This book starts and ends with the first ten seasons, so pre-Hartman/Carvey/Hooks. It's granular in its detail.
— Nov 06, 2025 03:59PM
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Bill Shannon
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I'm fascinated with the Jean Doumanian era of SNL. It must have seemed like SNL fanfiction in 1980-81. I remember seeing some of these episode in reruns and thinking how lame they were. Makes sense since JD seemingly didn't have a great comic sensibility.
— Nov 18, 2025 06:09AM
