Those of you disappointed with the paltry extras on this week's release of Saturday Night Live: The Complete First Season should be cruising around the web, as everyone seems to be coming out of the woodwork to talk about the show. In print, at least.
Hollywood.com recently spoke with Al Franken about his time on the show with writing partner Tom Davis:
HW: How did you get the SNL gig originally?
AF: I was 24, fresh off the comedy circuit with Tom. An agent saw us and asked us if we’d like to get jobs as writers, because we wrote all our own stuff and he thought it was really good. We needed money, of course, because we weren’t making that much money doing stand up and were actually interested in writing. So we said sure. We put together a portfolio of stuff, which included a news segment, a commercial parody, a sketch, a film thing, and we got hired. We showed up, the first day of Saturday Night Live in July of 1975, and I met Chevy [Chase] and Gilda [Radner]. I turned to Tom and said, “Oh, this is going to be a giant hit!”
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