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Scott Rowley

"It's like Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown but with less generation-defining genius and far more people dressed as bees": The SNL movie Saturday Night is fast and funny

THe promo poster for Saturday Night: a parody of old school National Lampoon style movie posters.

“What is clam-diving?” asks the NBC standards woman, a conservative Maiden Aunt type whose job it is to approve the script and stop the goddamn dope-smoking beatniks of Saturday Night Live from poisoning the airwaves.

Writer/comedian Michael O’Donoghue (Tommy Dewey) reviews her suggested re-writes: “I’d rather butt-fuck cancer than make these changes,” he says. And then he sets the pages on fire and tosses them out the window of 30 Rockefeller Plaza into the streets of New York.

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