39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss : The Early Days of SNL From Someone Who Was There

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. 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#8212;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#8212;and psychoactive drugs#8212;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." #8212; Publishers Weekly , starred review 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. A seriously funny, offbeat and irreverent memoir that chronicles the early days of Saturday Night Live and features some of its greatest personalities--Al Franken, Lorne Michaels, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Bill Murray, Michael O'Donoghue, and Chris Farley. Written by Tom Davis, an original SNL writer and comedy partner of Al Franken, this is the story of coming of age in the 60s, and an account of the birth and rise of Saturday Night Live. Davis' memoir is filled with wry, candid anecdotes about his days at Saturday Night Live, but it also the story of Davis' own coming of age--escaping his conservative roots in suburban Minneapolis, traveling the world, and reveling in the hippie culture of 1960s San Francisco. The author finds the highs and lows of his own career to be a hilarious counterpoint to the meteoric rise of SNL and his friends' growing celebrity.--From publisher description