Tom Shales et al - Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live Books

Pros: lots of good behind the scenes anecdotes
Cons: a few not so interesting commentators

Saturday Night Live was a groundbreaking show when it premiered in 1975. It is a show that has weathered tragedies and down years without faltering. Death rumors for Saturday Night Live have been almost as frequent as the death ...

Pros: Loads of interesting info.
Cons: Perhaps a bit too overbearing in its reverence for Lorne Michaels.

(Sound of laughter in background) "What's that you're watching Jeff?" "Saturday Night Live". "The new one or the old one." "The most recent episode. It is Saturday Night after all". "But it hasn't been funny in ages" "But according to ...

Pros: Much History
Cons: Too much focus on writers

This book is not so much of a story but essentially a collection of quotes from everyone involved in the show since day one. Everyone from the writers to the performers to the booking agents weigh in on everything under the sun. The collection of ...

Pros: Interesting compendium of interviews with most of the major players in SNL history.
Cons: Not much analysis, or original material. Still, the authors did their homework.

Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller have compiled an exhaustive collection of interviews with most of ...

Pros: Detailed backstage gossip of the show - some of it juicy
Cons: Anecdotal format, not much insight

Saturday Night Live (“SNL”) seems to have been around forever. I always looked forward to staying up late to watch it, whenever I could, since I was 10 years old. I didn’t always get the jokes, and sometimes, I got the jokes but they...

Pros: Comprehensive; frequently fascinating.
Cons: May be too much information for some.

Face it, you must have watched "Saturday Night Live" at some point in its more than a quarter-century of broadcasting. It's become part of the furniture over the years, inventing a programming format that has yet to be duplicated successfully any place el ...

Pros: Great gossip about SNL.
Cons: What? No good gossip about Joe Piscapo? For shame!

When I was a kid, one of the local channels showed reruns of Saturday Night Live. I loved watching these reruns. All the people were so funny and silly, and there was one lady named Gilda Radner who made everyone laugh, who could just come out and say...

Pros: Some good anecdotes, easy to read format, something for every fan.
Cons: Some interesting omissions, too much focus on writers/business end and Lorne Michaels.

Book: Live From New York – An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as told by its Stars, Writers & Guests. Genre: Non Fiction Author: Tim Shales & James Andrew Miller Length: 594 pages w/index. Published: 2002 I started watching ...

Pros: Extremely thorough, some funny backstage anecdotes
Cons: Misses the spark that made the show so great in its best days

The only laughable thing about today's incarnation of Saturday Night Live is how miserably un-funny ...