Top Reads For News Junkies: ‘Live From New York’

Top Reads For News Junkies: ‘Live From New York’

This week Saturday Night Live, the beloved cultural mainstay and comedy behemoth that launched a thousand careers, punchlines, memes, and indelible parodies, turns 40. To seize the occasion, authors James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales updated and republished their remarkable, comprehensive 2003 history of the show, Live from New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by its Stars, Writers, and Gueststo include almost 100 new pages of candid interviews, inside gossip, and insane anecdotes from the last decade of SNL.

You can purchase the book here.

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Jeff Danziger lives in New York City and Vermont. He is a long time cartoonist for The Rutland Herald and is represented by Counterpoint Syndicate. He is a recipient of the Herblock Prize and the Thomas Nast (Landau) Prize. He served in the US Army in Vietnam and was awarded the Bronze Star and the Air Medal. He has published eleven books of cartoons, a novel and a memoir. Visit him at DanzigerCartoons.

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