Live, from the New York Magazine Archives... It's in Your Face, LA!
Forty years ago, Chevy Chase and George Carlin were so glad to be doing it on the east coast
There’s been all sorts of fun media coverage framing this month’s 40th-year anniversary of Saturday Night Live. Everything from Bill Carter in THR to members of the current cast, interviewing each other, in Gotham magazine.
Today, Vulture has reposted Jeff Greenfield’s original coverage of the show’s 1975 launch. It’s a take Woody Allen must have loved:
“Your mind atrophies in L.A.,” says Chevy Chase, who wrote for the defunct Smothers Brothers comeback show last year. “Nobody reads the papers out there.
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