thirty nine years of short term memory loss the early days of snl from someone who was there
thirty nine years of short term memory loss is a seriously funny and irreverent memoir that gives an insiders view of the birth and rise of saturday night live and features laugh out loud stories about some of its greatest personalities al franken lorne michaels dan aykroyd john belushi bill murray michael odonoghue and chris farley . written by tom davis an original snl writer and comedy partner of al franken thirty nine years of short term memory loss is the story of coming of age in the 60s and a spellbinding account of the birth and rise of one of televisions most celebrated shows saturday night live . al franken and tom davis were a stand up comedy team that got their start in high school in 1968 performing their first material at dudley riggs brave new workshop in minneapolis . they worked in comedy clubs and colleges from new york to los angeles sharing stages with contemporaries including jay leno don novello gabe kaplan and andy kaufman . when they were rejected by the tonight show and blacklisted by the comedy store franken and davis embraced their counter cultural bent all the more pushing the envelope of their unique sense of humor . however success seemed less than likely until lorne michaels read some of their material in july 1975 and hired the team sight unseen as writers for an as yet unnamed comedy show to be broadcast live from new york the show that would become saturday night live . tom daviss memoir is filled with wry candid anecdotes about his days at saturday night live and his friendships with its stars . but this memoir is also a coming of age tale of his generation and a graphic description of the cannon he was shot out of suburbanchildhood high school in the 60s the discovery of sex overcoming the stumbling blocks of fear through the use of lsd and reveling in the hippie culture from san francisco to katmandu . hysterical lucid and wise thirty nine years of short term memory loss is an unforgettable romp in an era of sex drugs and comedy .
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 odonoghue 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 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 .