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39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss

The Early Days of SNL from Someone Who Was There

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39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss

By: Tom Davis
Narrated by: Tom Davis
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 39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss is a seriously funny, offbeat, and irreverent memoir that chronicles the early days of Saturday Night Live and features some of its greatest personalities---Al Franken, Lorne Michaels, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Bill Murray, Michael O'Donoghue, and Chris Farley.

Written by Tom Davis, an original SNL writer and comedy partner of Al Franken, 39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss is the story of coming of age in the 1960s and a spellbinding account of the birth and rise of one of television's most celebrated shows. Davis's memoir is filled with wry, candid anecdotes about his days at Saturday Night Live and his friendship with its stars. But it is also the story of Davis's own coming of age 0 escaping his conservative roots in suburban Minneapolis, traveling the world, and reveling in the hippie culture of 1960s San Francisco. The author finds the highs and lows of his own career to be a hilarious counterpoint to the meteoric rise of SNL and his friends' growing celebrity.

Hysterical, lucid, and wise, 39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss is a free-spirited, unrepentant romp through an era of sex, drugs, and comedy.

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I certainly enjoyed Tom's performance of this audiobook. His Al Franklyn impression as well as many others were spot on. I bought this because of the SNL connection and was not disappointed, some great stories here. I waned a little halfway through, when it just seemed to be a list of drugs taken and was completed bored with Tim Leary section. I enjoyed about 87% of it. worth a read/listen.

drugs, drugs and drugs and roll

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