At least the soon-to-come fake apology will be unintentionally hilarious.
At least the soon-to-come fake apology will be unintentionally hilarious.
Interesting description of Nora Dunn. She always struck me as the most serious woman in comedy. I'm not surprised to hear that she would seem intimidating in person. I loved her on SNL. Michaels shouldn't have let her contract expire. That was a big wimp move on his part.
I haven't seen the documentary yet. I'm going this weekend. I noticed that the film's running time is 80 minutes. That's shorter than one single episode of SNL. That would leave out plenty of stuff.
SCTV deserves the royal treatment. It was brilliant.
My friend and I were just talking about this exact subject. The Not Ready for Prime Time years are well-documented, but the hellish '80-'81 season always gets swept aside. Reports skip over it and jump into Ebersol's tenure. A breakdown of this particular year would probably be fascinating: trying to follow the…