The '85-'86 season was a rough year for SNL. Developed in 1990 by a writing staff that included future comedy luminaries Conan O'Brien, Robert Smigel, Al Franken, Greg Daniels ( The Office), and George Meyer ( The Simpsons), The Saturday Night Live Movie would've been an anthology-style sketch comedy film in the vein of The Kentucky Fried Movie and Amazon Women on the Moon.Īmong the sketches in the script discovered by Hitfix's Drew Mcweeny are a parody of E.T., a series of PSA-style spots where celebrities like Christopher Reeve and Clint Eastwood argue about what their charity is actually raising money for, and a musical spoof co-written by former SNL writer/current senator Al Franken called "Crack Rap," which Mcweeny describes as "one of the least funny and most unintentionally racist things I've ever read." While characters ranging from beloved (Wayne and Garth) to yeah-I-guess-that-was-funny-for-five-seconds ( The Ladies Man) have scored movies, there was a time when SNL itself was going to be the subject of a big screen outing. At that moment, cast member Gilda Radner walked into the dressing room, creating a moment as awkward as Berle's episode. It was like a pepperoni," Zweibel recalled. Writer Rosie Schuster revealed in the book Live From New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of SNL that Berle's mugging, pratfalls and spit takes during sketches was like watching a "comedy train accident in slow motion on a loop." Writer Alan Zweibel even got confirmation of the size of Berle's much-discussed anatomy when the comedy legend pulled out his "anaconda" in the dressing room. But "Uncle Miltie" was famous for his tendency to upstage other performers, something which didn't exactly ingratiate the randy comedian with the Not Ready for Primetime Players.īerle's episode proved to be one of the most notoriously awful in SNL history, with the comic's Catskills-honed routine working against SNL's edgy material. When Milton Berle hosted SNL in April of 1979, it was seen as comedy's old guard passing the torch to the new class.
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