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Comedy writer and Saturday Night Live pioneer Anne Beatts dies at 74

Beatts died at her home in West Hollywood, California, according to her close friend Rona Kennedy. Kennedy, a film producer and a fellow faculty member at Chapman University, did not immediately know the cause of death. Starting in 1975 and running for five seasons, Beatts was among a team of gifted writers that included Rosie Shuster, Alan Zweibel, Marilyn Suzanne Miller and such cast members as Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase who helped make Saturday Night Live a cultural phenomenon. With Shuster, she would invent the beloved young nerds, the nasally, Marvin Hamlisch-adoring Lisa Loopner (played by Gilda Radner) and Todd DiLaMuca (Bill Murray), and help coin such catchphrases as Lisa’s: “That’s so funny I forgot to laugh.”

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Anne Beatts, comedy writer on original SNL staff and more, dies at 74

Anne Beatts, comedy writer on original ‘SNL’ staff and more, dies at 74 Updated 7:14 AM; Today 7:14 AM FILE - Anne Beatts arrives at the premiere of Live from New York! in Los Angeles on June 10, 2015. Beatts, a groundbreaking comedy writer who was on the original staff of “Saturday Night Live” and later created the cult sitcom “Square Pegs,” died Wednesday, April 7, at her home in West Hollywood, California, according to her close friend Rona Kennedy. She was 74. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP Facebook Share NEW YORK (AP) Anne Beatts, a groundbreaking comedy writer with a taste for sweetness and the macabre who was on the original staff of “Saturday Night Live” and later created the cult sitcom “Square Pegs,” has died. She was 74.

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Anne Beatts, comedy writer on original SNL staff dies at 74

Anne Beatts, comedy writer on original ‘SNL’ staff dies at 74 Updated 6:37 AM; Today 6:37 AM FILE - Anne Beatts arrives at the premiere of Live from New York! in Los Angeles on June 10, 2015. Beatts, a groundbreaking comedy writer who was on the original staff of “Saturday Night Live” and later created the cult sitcom “Square Pegs,” died Wednesday, April 7, at her home in West Hollywood, California, according to her close friend Rona Kennedy. She was 74. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP Facebook Share Anne Beatts, a groundbreaking comedy writer with a taste for sweetness and the macabre who was on the original staff of “Saturday Night Live” and later created the cult sitcom “Square Pegs,” has died. She was 74.

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Anne Beatts, groundbreaking comedy writer, dead at 74 | Taiwan News

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Anne Beatts, pioneering SNL writer, dead at 74

Anne Beatts, pioneering SNL writer, dead at 74
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