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Live From New York: An Uncensored History Of Saturday Night Live

Tom Shales

Hardcover | Pages: 781 pages

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Original Title:	Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live
ISBN:	0316295043 (ISBN13: 9780316295048)
Setting:	United States of America

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Just in time for the 40th anniversary of Saturday Night Live, a rollickingly updated edition of LIVE FROM NEW YORK with more than 100 pages covering the past decade.

When first published to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Saturday Night Live, LIVE FROM NEW YORK was immediately proclaimed the best book ever produced on the landmark and legendary late-night show. In their own words, unfiltered and uncensored, a dazzling galaxy of trail-blazing talents recalled three turbulent decades of on-camera antics and off-camera escapades. Now a fourth decade has passed---and bestselling authors James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales have returned to Studio 8H. Over more than 100 pages of new material, they raucously and revealingly take the SNL story up to the present, adding a constellation of iconic new stars, surprises, and controversies.

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Title	:	Live From New York: An Uncensored History Of Saturday Night Live
Author	:	Tom Shales
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Revised Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 781 pages
Published	:	September 9th 2014 by Little, Brown and Company (first published October 7th 2002)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. Humor. Comedy. Biography. Media Tie In. Tv

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This is really great dish, especially if you watched this show for any extended period of time in your life. I've fallen away from watching it the past few years, but watched it for decades. So the dish is great. I guess I had this idealized (and erroneous) conception of how the show works. I figured that it was all about camaraderie and friendship and a shared sense of the mission---simply to make people laugh. Okay, and maybe to make them think too. Sometimes. But not too much. But NOOOOO!!!

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I liked this book better than a lot of the other books I read about SNL, because it was presented as an oral history. People painted in a negative light in previous books (Chevy Chase & Jean Doumanian, for example) got to tell their sides of the story (Chase is uncharacteristically humble and expresses regret for some of his past actions, while Doumanian is given more than enough rope to hang herself). Plus, since this is a fairly recent book, it talks about more recent backstage drama, such

Journalist James Andrew Miller and television critic Tom Shales compiled the definitive oral history of Saturday Night Live in 2002, a book that was nothing short of a master's program in comedy, writing and stagecraft, as well as the business of TV. Friends with interests in those areas, or who were simply fans of SNL, were lobbied hard by me to read it. Subsequently, and not surprisingly, my copy vanished.In 2014, in time for the 40th anniversary of the longest running variety series in

This. Book. Is. Amazing.I have two great loves in my life and they are constantly dueling for my time. Granted, I have an excess of free time due to laziness and not making plans with friends as often as I should, but still, EVERY MOMENT of it is a battle between my two major interests.They are comedy and books.For the first time, I was given an option that was TRULY BOTH. (Thats this book.) I made this book last me for a month plus because I so enjoyed not fighting that battle. (Picture me,

560 pages of new interviews with the living cast members, past and present, from Saturday Night Live (no old material from the dead), as well as Lorne Michaels and writers. Its a fairly interesting bit of reading, going from the shows origins in 75 to the 2002 season, and getting views from everyone except Eddie Murphy, who will not talk about the show ever for some reason. Theres a lot of gossip, anecdotes about the crazy all-night sessions, backstage sex, backstabbing, and so forth. And plenty

I love this kind of "oral history" approach. Everything told through interviews with the people that lived it. And you're left to weave together the truth and the fiction. SNL is an institution, despite the derision it gets from each new generation of viewers. Taking 90 minutes of television out of the hands of a broadcast media elite in the mid-70s and handing it to what was essentially a bunch of kids to do whatever they want in real time on live television was a huge deal. We take for granted