“Good evening. I’m wearing black mesh stockings, and studded leather boots with eight-inch spiked heels. And a garter belt.”
“Before I begin my regular news broadcast tonight, I would like to read you a letter:
‘Dear Jane Curtin,
I sure do miss Chevy. He is real sexy. You can’t hold a candle to him. Would you please send me his photograph?
Yours sincerely, Margie Kaufman’
I’ve been getting letters about news update with phrases like, ‘going downhill, not what is used to be, and just plain boring’. Mostly the letters are about how Update isn’t as good as when that…sexy Chevy Chase did it. The network says the ratings are slipping and they’re putting a lot of pressure on Lorne to try somebody new. Like that new kid, Murray, or whatever his name is. You see, I just assumed it was responsible journalism you wanted, not sex. I gave you more credit than that, but I was wrong. What can I say besides…try these on for size, Connie Chung! If it’s raw news you want, it’s raw news you’ll get!”
20/03/13 @ 04:18pm
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I’m just a Broadway Baby, walkin’ on my tired feet. Pounding 42nd street to be in a show.
Broadway Baby, learnin’ how to sing and dance, waitin’ for that one big chance to be in a show.
Jane Curtin and Dan Aykroyd doing Point-Counterpoint on Weekend Update, 17th March 1979.
08/03/13 @ 04:26pm
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“SNL was a misogynistic environment…they were threatened by the fact that there were all these women going out into the workplace and they were going to have to compete with them as well as the other men.”
Happy International Women’s Day from Gilda, Jane, Laraine, and Julia
Gilda Radner and Jane Curtin | SNL’s original screen test
A lot of things changed. The times changed and Amy and Maya and Ana and I, we know that we are beholding to Jane and Laraine and Gilda and to Rosie and Anne Beatts and all the women who fought through all that nonsense.
- Tina Fey
Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow.
Safe abortions have always been available to the rich, Dan. You simply want to deny them to the poor, and if you succeed, poor woman will be forced to get them anyway. They’ll be forced into the alleys with hangers, plungers and vacuum cleaners, risking death or mutilation. But you’d like that, wouldn’t you, Dan? You sadistic, elitist, sexist, racist, anti-humanist pig! Saturday Night Live 3x18
This aired in 1978. Thirty-four years later, it’s still a fucking ~debate.
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