39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss
The Early Days of SNL from Someone Who Was There
Published on 1. September 2018
320 pages
978-1-55584-916-0 (ISBN)
Description
A memoir from the Emmy-winning
Saturday Night Live writer that is "funny, spiky, and twistedly entertaining" (
Entertainment Weekly).
39 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 sixties, 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, 39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss is an unforgettable romp in an era of sex, drugs, and comedy.
"Though it features some lurid and hysterical SNL stories, Davis's memoir is less a backstage expose than a winning coming-of-age story featuring a funny Midwestern kid following his unlikely dream to the top." - Publishers Weekly, starred review
39 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 sixties, 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, 39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss is an unforgettable romp in an era of sex, drugs, and comedy.
"Though it features some lurid and hysterical SNL stories, Davis's memoir is less a backstage expose than a winning coming-of-age story featuring a funny Midwestern kid following his unlikely dream to the top." - Publishers Weekly, starred review
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Tom Davis (1952-2012) won four Emmy Awards during his twelve seasons as a writer at Saturday Night Live, which included the first five years of the show.Tom Davis won four Emmy Awards during his twelve seasons as a writer at Saturday Night Live, which included the first five years of the show.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- 1 Dan Aykroyd
- 2 Beginnings
- 3 Al Franken
- 4 Dudley Riggs
- 5 India
- 6 First Love and Sex
- 7 San Francisco to Cambridge, Early '73
- 8 F & D IN L.A.
- 9 Fuck Johnny Carson
- 10 Significant Other
- 11 Lorne
- 12 John Belushi
- 13 A Night in the Bungalow
- 14 Timothy Leary
- 15 Incidents and Coincidence: Death Camps, Franken, and the Beatles
- 16 More GD
- 17 Trading Places
- 18 Michael O'Donoghue
- 19 Chris Farley
- 20 More Danny
- 21 Hepburn Heights, The Den of Equity
- 22 More AF
- 23 The Breakup
- 24 The Best Snl Show Ever: Where do you Get Your Ideas From?
- 25 The Grand Marquis
- Books I Read While Writing My Own, Which Had Some Indeterminate Influence
- My Favorite Films
