Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live - Softcover

Hill, Doug; Weingrad, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1611877091 ISBN 13: 9781611877090

Publisher: Untreed Reads Publishing, LLC, 2014

Synopsis

Saturday Night is the intimate history of the original Saturday Night Live, from its beginnings as an outlaw program produced by an unruly band of renegades from the comedy underground to a TV institution that made stars of John Belushi, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman, Garrett Morris, Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy. This is the book that revealed to the world what really happened behind the scenes during the first ten years of this groundbreaking program, from the battles SNL fought with NBC to the battles fought within the show itself. It's all here: The love affairs, betrayals, rivalries, drug problems, overnight successes, and bitter failures, mixed with the creation of some of the most outrageous and original comedy ever. "It reads like a thriller," said the Associated Press, "and may be the best book ever written about television." Available for the first time in ebook format, this edition features nearly fifty photographs of cast, crew and sketches.

About this edition

• Publisher: Untreed Reads Publishing, LLC
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1611877091
• ISBN 13: 9781611877090
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 588