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Alas, the '80s have become bedtime for Gonzo, so the occasion seems prime for a chronicle of the show. Saturday Night, subtitled "a backstage history," does remarkably thorough research on incredibly haphazard troupes. Authors Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad sometimes let enthusiasm get in the way of level judgment--Baudelaire and Blake are cited among S.N.L's spiritual fathers--but their book works up a vivid frontline fever as it relates the conceptual brawls, bad trips on the twin drugs of cocaine and sudden fame, psychological entanglements, romantic skirmishes and perpetual pitched battles with the censors involved in getting...
...have been any funnier, finally, than anyone on Your Show of Shows, but this book gives full measure to the size and the weight of S.N.L.'s substantial legacy. If the show was in danger of going down in history as a farm team for Hollywood, Hill and Weingrad have righted that misconception. S.N.L. was bodacious and irreverent, brazen enough to make everything else on the networks seem irrelevant. If Michaels' current edition of S.N.L. seems to be struggling hard with some heavy freight, Saturday Night shows what is inside the load: memories of breakaway comedy from real glory days...
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