Live From New York
An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live
By Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller
Little Brown & Company - October 2002
ISBN: 0316781460 - Hardcover
Nonfiction / Television / Misc

Reviewed by Stormy Beasley, MyShelf.Com
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Saturday Night Live has become an institution and hallmark in U.S. American television and comedy history. The show, which debuted in 1975, has brought a different kind of humor to the forefront. This humor now pervades and is a part of the U.S. American pop culture lexicon. The book Live From New York recounts the many histories of Saturday Night Live. From the beginnings with Lorne Michaels and Rosie Schulman to the times of Gilda Radner and Lorraine Newman to the greatness of Phil Hartman to now with Jimmy Fallon and Tina Fey. It recounts the highs and the lows, which of course include the deaths of John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Phil Hartman, and Chris Farley. I enjoyed these funny, sometimes sarcastic, sometimes poignant tales of the cast members and writers of Saturday Night Live. The authors should be commended for such a wonderful job and an interesting book.