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TheSaturday Night Livefamily has lost many cast members over the years.
“She was a really good laugher.”
The reason was simple.
Gilda Radner and Bill Murray on ‘SNL’ in 1978.Credit:NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty
“She would wet her pants, that’s what Gilda would do,” Murray said.
“You could get her going, and she’d have to run out of the room.
The comedians worked together on the show in its early years.
Gilda Radner in 1985.Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty
She was on the show until 1980, which overlapped with Murray’s tenure from 1977 to 1980.
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Then Radner died of ovarian cancer in 1989, when she was 42.
And she’d see it and go like, ‘Uh-oh, here it comes.’
And you do, and it’s fun.”
Murray has acknowledged that he cried at last month’s star-studdedSNL50special, celebrating a half-century of the sketch comedy.
I could have cried just now.
“And I was there watching it, and they rehearsed for hours.
And they rehearsed until it was, you know, really, really great.
And Steve’s meticulous, and it had to be really, really great.
She worked like crazy, ‘cause he was gonna make it perfect.
It was beautiful.”
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