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Candy? >> they could definitely hang with the guys, they were just as important and hilarious. >> hey, stud muffins, want to make bouncy, bouncy? >> they had three female performers, and three female writers. which if you look at the comedy landscape at that time, is unheard of. >> what made "saturday night live" different from those other shows was our show was the first one to really have a voice for a younger generation. >> then the man -- >> eww! >> eww! >> yuck. >> that's disgusting. >> and then you scream, and then he screams, and then it's over. >> the early days of "snl" were a tale of...

Because you had these great female writers like ann beatts and marilyn miller and rosie shuster, but john belushi didn't want to do sketches written by women. >> i like sirloin steak, i like american food. don't push me, i mean it! >> john used to regularly ask for the women to be fired on the show, because chicks just weren't funny. >> awful! awful! couldn't be worse! >> really enough to make you want to puke your guts out. >> it was an uphill battle. lauren used to come around to me and rosy and say, so what have you got for the girls? we felt an obligation to cover them since the men didn't...

>> the early days of "snl" were a tale of two worlds. because you had these great female writers like ann beatts and marilyn miller and rosie shuster, but john belushi didn't want to do sketches written by women. >> i like sirloin steak, i like american food. don't push me, i mean it! >> john used to regularly ask for the women to be fired on the show, because chicks just weren't funny. >> awful! awful! couldn't be worse! >> really enough to make you want to puke your guts out. >> it was an uphill battle. lauren used to come around to me and rosy and say, so what have you got for the girls? we...

>> that's disgusting. >> and then you scream, and then he screams, and then it's over. >> the early days of "snl" were a tale of two worlds. because you had these great female writers like ann beatts and marilyn miller and rosie shuster, but john belushi didn't want to do sketches written by women. >> i like sirloin steak, i like american food. don't push me, i mean it! >> john used to regularly ask for the women to be fired on the show, because chicks just weren't funny. >> awful! awful! couldn't be worse! >> really enough to make you want to puke your guts out. >> it was an uphill battle. la...

Writers. which if you look at the comedy landscape at that time, is unheard of. >> what made "saturday night live" different from those other shows was our show was the first one to really have a voice for a younger generation. >> then the man -- >> eww! >> eww! >> yuck. >> that's disgusting. >> and then you scream, and then he screams, and then it's over. >> the early days of "snl" were a tale of two worlds. because you had these great female writers like ann beatts and marilyn miller and rosie shuster, but john belushi didn't want to do sketches written by women. >> i like sirloin steak, i l...