Kirsti's Reviews > Live From New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests

"Horatio was wiping tears of laughter out of his eyes with a waffle." --Paula Pell, describing the "Debbie Downer" sketch she wrote in which nearly every actor broke character and laughed during the performance

"I always said I would love to have done SCTV. There were smarter producers and smarter people involved." --Tim Kazurinsky

"I like it when people leave because that's what makes Saturday Night Live work. If you had the same cast that you had from the '70s, this show wouldn't be around." --Jimmy Fallon

"Tina [Fey] is everything I want to be. . . . She writes sketches like she's making scrambled eggs, like it's nothing." --Fred Armisen

"I would never be where I am today without SNL. No way. Nobody would have let me be on camera, and then to get a gig like 'Weekend Update'--you just can't get any luckier because you are going on TV every week, as yourself, saying, 'Hi! This is my name and now I'm telling you jokes.' " --Tina Fey

"A 'no-wig' job like that one struck me as a good thing to aim for." --Seth Meyers, describing "Weekend Update"

"Sarah Palin was just pennies from heaven. An amazing gift to comedy, that woman." --Paula Pell

"I have plenty of opportunities to look like a million bucks. I'd rather look like, I don't know, someone's anus or something." --Scarlett Johansson, on hosting SNL

"When I'm doing a movie and it has a particular type of scene, I always imagine it being made fun of on Saturday Night Live." --Robert De Niro

"God, you make so much money doing it--five or six hundred bucks! You can really clean up being a guest star at SNL!" --Jon Hamm

"Fortunately for me, I have always enjoyed mystery and solitude." --Tom Davis, shortly after he received a diagnosis of terminal cancer

"I think Lorne Michaels has done more for women in comedy than anyone I know." --Amy Poehler

"I've never been broke a day since I met Lorne Michaels." --Chris Rock

Very entertaining update of this book, which originally came out 10 years ago. Nice to hear from the younger cast members.