After rewatching early episodes of ‘SNL’ with her family, the original cast member was less than impressed with the series: “It was terrible!”
after receiving a compilation video. “We were sent the five-year compilation video of’s first five years a few years ago, and I gave one to my daughter,” she said. “We were out visiting her daughter one Christmas, and her husband said, ‘Have you ever watched any of these?’ And I said, ‘God, I haven’t seen them in a long time.’”
The funnywoman and her family gathered around the television to watch an episode of the series. “I had that sort of anticipatory, open-mouth grin that people have when they’re waiting for something to happen, that they know is going to be really great,” she said. That grin, however, soon turned into a frown. “And…it never happened. It wasn’t funny. Not one thing was funny. There was not one utterance of a laugh or a giggle.”for five seasons, leaving in 1980.
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