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Anne Beatts, original SNL writer who broke into boys’ club of comedy, dies at 74 Harrison Smith © Noam Galai/Getty Images for 2019 Nantucket Film Festival Original “Saturday Night Live” writer Anne Beatts, right, with original cast member Jane Curtin in 2019. Ms. Beatts helped create characters including Uncle Roy, Irwin Mainway, Fred Garvin and “the Nerds.” Anne Beatts, who broke into the boys’ club of comedy as a writer at National Lampoon and “Saturday Night Live,” where she helped shape the show’s brash, bold and gleefully irreverent sensibility befo...

Former 'SNL' writer, 'Square Pegs' creator Anne Beatts dead at 74 By (0) Former "Saturday Night Live" and "Square Pegs" creator Anne Beatts died at the age of 74 in her home in West Hollywood on Wednesday. File Photo courtesy of the Vancouver Film School/Flickr April 8 (UPI) -- Anne Beatts a comedy writer who helmed many of Saturday Night Live's earliest characters has died. She was 74 years old. Beatts died at her home in West Hollywood on Wednesday and a cause of death has not yet been confirmed, Variety and Deadline reported. Advertisement Beatts began her comedy career writing for the ...

Robin Marchant/Getty Images The writer-producer also wrote for 'Committed' and 'The Stephanie Miller Show' and produced 'A Different World' from 1987 to 1988. Anne Beatts, the creator of CBS sitcom  Square Pegs and an original writer of  Saturday Night Live, has died. She was 74. Beatts died on Wednesday, Laraine Newman, an original castmember of SNL, wrote in a tweet Thursday. "Our Anne — an OG SNL writer passed away yesterday," Newman wrote. "Anne was a pioneer — she truly paved the way for women in comedy and female comedy writers in particular who may not have had their shot if ...

Anne Beatts, a pioneering writer for "Saturday Night Live" and National Lampoon who also created the sitcom "Square Pegs," died Wednesday, according to a statement from NBC. She was 74. A two-time Emmy winner for "SNL," Beatts became the first female contributing editor to the humor magazine National Lampoon before being tapped as part of the founding writing team on the NBC latenight program in 1975. She worked on a number of memorable sketches, including several featuring Gilda Radner, among them the "Nerds" with then-writing partner Rosie Shuster. Beatts was also a writer on the 1980 film ...