NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In these hilarious essays, the Saturday Night Live head writer and Weekend Update co-anchor learns how to take a beating. “I always wanted to punch his face before I read this book.

Saturday Night Live FAQ is the first book to offer the show's generations of fans everything they ever wanted to know (and may have forgotten) about SNL.

... 59, 220 cast, 53–54, 56 creative control, 52–57, 59, 64–65, 68, 71, 76–77 debut episode, 19, 45–46, 55 Emmy Awards and, 59–60, 76 gay characters and themes, 62–63 lottery story line and final season, 67–68 motherhood and, 50, 53, ... Sagher, Tami, 147, 212, 218 Saturday Night Live (SNL), 8, 149,210, 211, 231 Candace Bergen and, 23 Tina Fey and, 138–40, 145,205 women and, 139 writers, 8, ...

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.

18. Everett M. Smith, “An Auction for Collectors of Memorabilia,” Christian Science Monitor, September 6, 1963, 21. 19. ... 45. “The Uncle Tom Show,” Saturday Night Live, season 7, episode 5, NBC, aired January 30, 1982; “Buh- Weet and de ...

Whichever it is, Chris Kattan has earned a spot in the hearts of a generation of comedy fans. Chris Kattan has defied comparison, expectations, and sometimes gravity with his inimitable style of physical comedy.

45 Tannenbaum and Marks, I Want My MTV, 22, 60–84, 70; Pekka Gronow, “The Record Industry: The Growth of a Mass Medium,” ... 55 “Debbie Harry and Funky 4+1 More,” Saturday Night Live, season 6, episode 10, aired February 14, 1981 ( NBC Studios); Andrew ... Is Sick,” Billboard, February 19, 1983, 53; Tannenbaum and Marks, I Want My MTV, 139; see also George, The Hippest Trip in America.

The book also features a charming foreword from his friend of forty-five years Billy Crystal, with whom he co-wrote and co-produced the upcoming film Here Today that stars Crystal and Tiffany Haddish.

45. 46. 47. 48. “Dreamland” (season six, episodes 4–5, November 29 and December 6, 1998). williamson and Sheets (1997, 35). ... Season seven's sixth episode, “The Empty Chair” (November 19, 2000), dealt with a middle-aged couple grappling, years later, with the ... Saturday Night Live (NBC, February 14, 1998). oh, to be a fly on the wall for Downey's interactions with that week's musical guest, ...

As seen in Netflix's "Cracked Up: The Darrell Hammond Story", this groundbreaking memoir is a raw look inside the troubled life and mind of an American comic genius.