Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live

＂ It reads like a thriller, and may be the best book ever written about television.＂ Associated Press ＂ A chilling real-life cliffhanger.＂ Washington Post ＂ An anthropological masterpiece.＂ Vanity Fair Saturday Night is the intimate, original history of Saturday Night Live, from its beginnings as an outlaw program produced by an unruly band of renegades from the comedy underground to a TV institution that made stars of John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman, Garrett Morris, Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy. This is the book that revealed to the world what really happened behind the scenes during the first ten years of this groundbreaking program, from the battles SNL fought with NBC to the battles fought within the show itself. It’s all here-- the love affairs, betrayals, rivalries, drug problems, overnight successes, and bitter failures, mixed with the creation of some of the most outrageous and original comedy ever. This reissue features nearly fifty photographs of cast, crew and sketches. Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad covered television for a wide variety of popular and professional organizations and publications, including The Associated Press, The New York Times, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, TV Guide, Broadcasting/Cablecasting, and Advertising Age.

Doug Hill has studied the history and philosophy of technology for more than twenty years, and it is that study that informs ＂Not So Fast: Thinking Twice About Technology.＂ Hill has led a peripatetic personal and professional life. He was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas, went to high school in Carmel and Burlingame, California, undergraduate school in Oregon and graduate school in New York City. After living for 20 years in Montclair, New Jersey, he now resides in Philadelphia. Hill spent the first half of his journalism career writing about television for a wide variety of popular and professional publications. He co-authored the book ＂Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live,＂ widely praised (Associated Press: ＂It may be the best book ever written about television＂) and widely stolen from. Tiring of celebrities and especially celebrity publicists, Hill has since written mainly about health and public policy.