Thirty-nine years of short-term memory loss
By: Tom Davis ; [foreword by Al Franken]
Contributors: Franken, Al
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780802118806
Subjects: Saturday night live (Television program); Live television programs; Comedians; Biography; Anecdotes
Other titles: Thirty nine years of short term memory loss; 39 years of short-term memory loss; Early days of SNL from someone who was there; Early days of Saturday Night Live from someone who was there
Description: A seriously funny, offbeat and irreverent memoir that chronicles the early days of Saturday Night Live and features some of its greatest personalities--Al Franken, Lorne Michaels, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Bill Murray, Michael O'Donoghue, and Chris Farley. Written by Tom Davis, an original SNL writer and comedy partner of Al Franken, this is the story of coming of age in the 60s, and an account of the birth and rise of Saturday Night Live. Davis' memoir is filled with wry, candid anecdotes about his days at Saturday Night Live, but it also the story of Davis' own coming of age--escaping his conservative roots in suburban Minneapolis, traveling the world, and reveling in the hippie culture of 1960s San Francisco. The author finds the highs and lows of his own career to be a hilarious counterpoint to the meteoric rise of SNL and his friends' growing celebrity.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-300) and filmography (p. 301-302).
Table of contents: title: Dan Aykroyd; title: Beginnings; title: Al Franken; title: Dudley Riggs; title: India; title: First love and sex; title: San Francisco to Cambridge, early '73; title: F & D & L.A.; title: Fuck Johnny Carson; title: Significant other; title: Lorne; title: John Belushi; title: A night in the bungalow; title: Timothy Leary; title: Incidents and coincidence : death camps, Franken, and the Beatles; title: More GD; title: Trading places; title: Michael O'Donoghue; title: Chris Farley; title: More Danny; title: Hepburn Heights, the den of equity; title: More AF; title: The breakup; title: The best SNL show ever : where do you get your ideas from? ; The Grand Marquis.