Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss: The Early Days of SNL from Someone Who Was There
by Tom Davis
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A seriously funny, offbeat and irreverent memoir that chronicles the early days of Saturday Night Live and features some of its greatest personalities--Al Franken, Lorne Michaels, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Bill Murray, Michael O'Donoghue, and Chris Farley. Written by Tom Davis, an original SNL writer and comedy partner of Al Franken, this is the story of coming of age in the 60s, and an account of the birth and rise of Saturday Night Live. Davis' memoir is filled with wry, candid anecdotes show more about his days at Saturday Night Live, but it also the story of Davis' own coming of age--escaping his conservative roots in suburban Minneapolis, traveling the world, and reveling in the hippie culture of 1960s San Francisco. The author finds the highs and lows of his own career to be a hilarious counterpoint to the meteoric rise of SNL and his friends' growing celebrity.--From publisher description. show lessTags
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What a mess! I had...er.... well, I had mediocre hopes for this book. Davis spent time with a lot of funny people, but unfortunately they don't appear in this book very often. Most of the book is about his girlfriends or his drug use, and even the parts that aren't are frequently interrupted by a memory of a girl or a drug experience. I couldn't finish this one, and I'll stick to Franken's books in the future!
Very disorganized, stories of one drug trip after another. A disappointment.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING!
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Tom Davis writes about life in the American South in short stories, articles, and poems. Davis, a resident of Fayetteville, N.C., uses personal experience, imagination, and humor to tell stories about Southern people and events. Davis combines true elements, such as the names of actual persons and events that really took place, with descriptions show more of imaginary people and places. Davis's books include What Would You Like on Your Mashed Potatoes?, The Long and the Short, Pickberry Pig, and The Patrol Order. Davis's works are also included in A Loving Voice and A Loving Voice II, anthologies of read-aloud short stories. Davis also publishes extensively in newspapers and journals, such as The Carolina Runner, Poet's Sanctuary, and Special Warfare, a professional military journal published by the Special Warfare Center. He has won numerous awards from Byline, a national magazine for writers. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss: The Early Days of SNL from Someone Who Was There
- Original publication date
- 2009
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- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 791.4502 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Public performances Motion pictures, radio, television, podcasting Television
- LCC
- PN1992.77 .S273 .D38 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Broadcasting Television broadcasts
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- Languages
- English
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- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
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- 7
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