Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss The Early Days of SNL from Someone Who Was There

by Davis, Tom; Franken, Al

• ISBN13: 9780802144560
• ISBN10: 080214456X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-30
• Publisher: Grove Press

Summary

Thirty-Nine Years of Short-term Memory Loss is a seriously funny and irreverent memoir that gives an insider's 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 O'Donoghue, and Chris Farley. Tom Davis's voice is rich with irony and understatement as he tells tales of discovery, triumph, and loss with relentless humor. His memoir describes not only his experiences on the set of SNL but also his suburban childhood, his high school escapades in the '60s, his discovery of sex, and how he reveled in the hippie culture--and psychoactive drugs--from San Francisco to Kathmandu to Burning Man over the last four decades. Hysterical, lucid, and wise, Thirty-Nine Years of Short-term Memory Loss is an unforgettable romp in an era of sex, drugs, and comedy.

Author Biography

Tom Davis is a four-time Emmy Award winner from twelve seasons at Saturday Night Live. He was half the comedy team of Franken and Davis from high school in 1968 until he and Al broke up in 1990. The first-time author now lives alone in the woods in upstate New York.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Dan Aykroyd	p. 1
Beginnings	p. 11
Al Franken	p. 23
Dudley Riggs	p. 29
India	p. 51
First Love and Sex	p. 71
San Francisco to Cambridge, Early '73	p. 81
F & D & L.A.	p. 91
Fuck Johnny Carson	p. 115
Significant Other	p. 123
Lorne	p. 133
John Belushi	p. 175
A Night in the Bungalow	p. 179
Timothy Leary	p. 183
Incidents and Coincidence: Death Camps, Franken, and the Beatles	p. 197
More GD	p. 203
Trading Places	p. 211
Michael O'Donoghue	p. 223
Chris Farley	p. 233
More Danny	p. 237
Hepburn Heights, The Den of Equity	p. 249
More AF	p. 261
The Breakup	p. 275
The Best SNL Show Ever: Where Do You Get Your Ideas From?	p. 279
The Grand Marquis	p. 293
Unapologia	p. 299
Books I Read While Writing My Own, Which Had Some Indeterminate Influence	p. 301
My Favorite Films	p. 303
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