“That’s what happens with live TV, and with topical TV.
It gets dated after a while.
Sometimes comedy ages like a fine wine… but other times, it sours like milk.
Jane Curtin.Nicholas Hunt/Getty
ForJane Curtin, the earliestSaturday Night Livesketches do a bit of both.
And I said, ‘God, I haven’t seen them in a long time.'”
And I said, ‘No, great!
John Belushi and Jane Curtin on ‘Saturday Night Live’ season 1.NBCU Photo Bank/Getty
Pick one!'"
“And… it never happened.”
The compilation played on, but Curtin said, “It wasn’t funny.
Not one thing was funny.
There was not one utterance of a laugh or a giggle.”
“There was a discipline to it even though it looked like chaos!”
But she maintains that some elements of the show haven’t aged as well as others.
“That’s what happens with live TV, and with topical TV.
It gets dated after a while.
Remember, this was almost 50 years ago.
But after we rewatched, I was like, ‘That really wasn’t a very good show.
It was terrible!'”
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