TY - BOOK AU - Hill,Doug AU - Weingrad,Jeff TI - Saturday night: a backstage history of Saturday night live SN - 0688050999 AV - PN 1992.77 H645s 1986 U1 - 791.45 PY - 1986/// CY - New York PB - Beech Tree Books KW - Saturday night live (Television program) KW - Saturday night live (Programa de televisión) KW - Comedias de televisión KW - Historia KW - Estados Unidos N1 - Includes index N2 - Saturday Night is the intimate history of the original Saturday Night Live, from its beginnings as an outlaw program produced by an unruly band of renegades from the comedy underground to a TV institution that made stars of John Belushi, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman, Garrett Morris, Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy. This is the book that revealed to the world what really happened behind the scenes during the first ten years of this groundbreaking program, from the battles SNL fought with NBC to the battles fought within the show itself. It's all here: The love affairs, betrayals, rivalries, drug problems, overnight successes, and bitter failures, mixed with the creation of some of the most outrageous and original comedy ever. "It reads like a thriller," said the Associated Press, "and may be the best book ever written about television." ER -