Laraine Newman, an original cast member of “Saturday Night Live,” joins TODAY to talk about the early days of the sketch-comedy show and how a run-in with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 30 Rock helped her realize it was starting to gain momentum.
Laraine Newman still remembers the moment she realized “Saturday Night Live” had staying power. In the earliest days of the show, she “had no idea who was watching” the sketch comedy series, Newman said during a visit to the 3rd hour of TODAY on Feb. 10. However, one chance celebrity encounter in the lobby of 30 Rock, where the show is filmed in New York City, completely changed that. “Out of my peripheral vision I see these forms, and they come into focus and it’s John and Yoko ,” she said.
” She also said when she visited the show years later for the 40th anniversary, she was amazed at how much the costume department had grown since the early days. “Our wardrobe was one room with a bedsheet that separated the women from the men, and with a sign just for Danny that said, ‘Must wear underwear,’” she said. Newman was an original member of the Groundlings, a Los Angeles-based improv group with dozens of notable alumni, including Will Ferrell, Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig.
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