EVERYONE WAS CONVINCED THAT BEING TALL WAS THE NEXT BIG MOVEMENT IN COMEDY: Scharpling and Wurster provide an oral history of the greatest SNL season that never was -- the summer of 1985 tryout episodes with a cast unlike any other.
I read the whole thing thinking it was real, wondering how I had not heard of this before. I feel incredibly stupid.
I think part of the reason (other then I am extremely gullible) that I believed it is because I imagine Jim Belushi is that much of an egotictical moron.
THEY TALK ABOUT MISFITS OF SCIENCE! See, Robin? It was a thing that happened.
ReplyDeleteIs that real? Maybe I'm stupid, but I can't tell if that article is fake.
ReplyDeleteJoke per splitsider:
ReplyDeletehttp://splitsider.com/2011/02/the-lost-season-of-saturday-night-live/
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It is close enough to realism to be exceptionally good.
ReplyDeleteBelieve me, I remember how real it was. And oddly, I linked to a video of it in the credit sequences discussion earlier this week.
ReplyDeleteI read the whole thing thinking it was real, wondering how I had not heard of this before. I feel incredibly stupid.
ReplyDeleteI think part of the reason (other then I am extremely gullible) that I believed it is because I imagine Jim Belushi is that much of an egotictical moron.
I was fine until they talked about Alex Karras getting the bench-press veto. Everything about it was way too odd to be real.
ReplyDeleteThough I love this explanation of why Ellen Foley left Night Court after one season.
I couldn't decide, until I got to the picture of Orson Welles in the sumo suit.
ReplyDeleteThose credits were the worst mess in history. I dare you to parse those lyrics apart. DARE, sir.
ReplyDeleteThat was the "aha" moment for me too. I genuinely was on the fence until that.
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