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>> the early days of "snl" were a tale of two worlds. because you had these great female writers like ann beets and marilyn miller and rosy shuster, but john belushi didnt want to do sketches written by women. >> i like sirloin steak, i like american food. dont push me, i mean it! >> john used to regularly ask for the women to be fired on the show, because chicks just werent funny. >> awful! awful! couldnt be worse! >> really enough to make you want to puke your guts out. >> it was an uphill bat...

>> "saturday night live" definitely early on, amazing that right out of the gate, it was lorraine newman and jane curtain and gilda radner. >> now, candy. candy? >> they could definitely hang with the guys. they wrp just as important and hi lair yaugs. >> hey, stud muffins, want to make bouncy, bouncy? >> they had three female performers, and three female writers. whh if y look at the comedy landscape at that time, is unheard of. >> what made "saturday night live" different from those other show...

>> eww! >> eww! >> ck. >> thats disgusting. >> and then you scream, and then he screams, and then its over. >> the early days of "snl" were a tale of two worlds. because you had these great female writers like ann beets and marilyn miller and rosy shuster, but john belushi didnt want to do sketches written by women. >> i like sirloin steak, i like american food. dont push me, i mean it! >> john used to regularly ask for the women to be fired on the show, because chicks just werent funny. >> awfu...