Live From New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests

Author:James Andrew Miller & Tom Shales [Miller, James Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Performing Arts / Television / History & Criticism
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2014-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

FRED WOLF:

Janeane Garofalo was awful on the show. She had it completely and totally wrong. She’s a very, very insecure person. She was my friend. I helped get her on the show. And she’s a very insecure person and she’s unwilling to sort of stand on her own body of work and ride on that talent. Instead, what she does is sort of tears everything down around her, (a) to make her feel better about what she’s doing, and (b) so she doesn’t have to really actually attempt anything upon which she could fail.

And so she was an infection in that show in that she was going to the press—at that point she was a darling of the press because she was sort of an articulate female—and going on about how it’s a men’s club at “Saturday Night Lifeless.” And that’s just bullshit. It’s an absolute total bullshit label. It just so happens that men are wildly more successful than women at Saturday Night Live, but not by design. It’s just genetic makeup, in my opinion.

Janeane Garofalo never spent an all-nighter. The writers and performers that went on to do very well never missed an all-nighter session. Janeane Garofalo never got with the writers and wrote sketches that she was dying to perform and would do anything that she could to get on the air. What she did instead was glom onto the host and just tear the show apart for the whole week, about how it’s a boys club there, and how they don’t let creativity flourish, and if they see certain initials on sketches they won’t laugh at them at read-through. All these negative things that were just patently ridiculous. And then she was a spectacular failure on the show.

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