Old showbiz saying: “If I can talk you out of going into the Industry, you wouldn’t have made it anyway.”
Neither we nor the writer of the following article are trying to talk anybody out of going into showbiz. Nevertheless…well, see for yourself:
by Steven W. Thrasher
Seeing Saturday Night Live turn 40 makes me feel really old. I worked at the show in seasons 24 and 25, when I was 25. I feel old remembering that Tina Fey was the head writer, didn’t appear on camera and wasn’t a celebrity. I feel geezerly recalling that there was only one internet connection in the SNL writing offices; and outright ancient thinking back on how I copied and pasted Xeroxes of newspaper stories for the writers pre-mass use of Google, and made tape-to-tape analogue video copies for the actors because YouTube hadn’t been invented.