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Jason Reitman On Capturing Lorne Michaels’ Chaotic Triage Preceding 1st ‘Saturday Night Live;’ Watch Reitman-Scripted Skits That Aired: Q&A
Jason Reitman On Capturing Lorne Michaels' Chaotic Triage Preceding 1st 'Saturday Night Live' & Watch Reitman-Scripted Skits That Aired
And the way we did that was building the entirety of the eighth and ninth floors into this two-story Jungle Gym with 80 background actors and 80 speaking roles, all working at the same time in choreography that was rehearsed over days. He showed up at an apartment party and had to lay his mangled head on the couch because he was lightheaded from blood loss, and when the dog comes and begins gnawing on his meat covered noggin, Harry notes, “He must smell my dog.” That was Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider who wrote that. Critics always seem so quick to dismiss the show, but Weekend Update with Colin Jost and Michael Che might be the best they’ve had, even though Norm MacDonald, Seth Myers, Jimmy Fallon and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler left their own stamp.
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