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Thirty-Nine Years Of Short-Term Memory Loss: The Early Days Of SNL From Someone Who Was There (2009)

by Tom Davis(Favorite Author)

3.06 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0802118801 (ISBN13: 9780802118806)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Grove Press

review 1: This was a frustrating read for me. I honestly had never heard of Tom Davis, despite having been an SNL fan for many years. I was more interested in the "behind-the-scenes" history of the show that was promised in the books subtitle. Sadly, this is seriously lacking in the book. Really, really, really lacking. In fact the only reason I finished this book was because of the hope of actually getting to a chapter that talked about SNL.I wasn't interested at all in Davis' many years and types of substance abuse, a history of his sexual partners, or his infatuation with the Grateful Dead. The book was conspicuously void of humor; another thing I found weird coming from a guy responsible for many of SNL's funniest sketches.
review 2: This often hilarious memoir... more weaves together the coming-of-age stories of a comedy writer and the television institution he helped spawn. When Saturday Night Live first hit the airwaves, Gerald Ford was president. No one expected it to run for decades; least of all, footloose midwestern hippie and cutup Tom Davis. Perhaps best remembered today as the other half of the Franken & Davis comedy team, Davis won four Emmy Awards during the '70s, but his free-spirited 39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss jogs through the honors, lingering instead on his interactions with Lorne Michaels, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, and Chris Farley. less

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