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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 Be...

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 comed...

(Jerusalem Israel) — Gilda Radner is doing flips in her grave. If she were alive, the former star of Saturday Night Live (SNL) who died in 1989,

>> the crowd just adored her. how many people play an old lady, you know, on a show and they can be thought of as young and sexy and vibrant? gilda went for it. >> and i promise from now on i will do my best. >> see that you do. >> bitch. >> first one to ever say bitch on television and the censors let me do it because they said well, it was a nice, sweet old lady saying it. >> i only named those people for television, and i put outfits on them for television but they've always been inside me. after i'm done being interviewed all day i go right into emily litella. i can hardly walk. i can't li...

>> the crowd just adored her. how many people play an old lady, you know, on a show and they can be thought of as young and sexy and vibrant? gilda went for it. >> and i promise from now on i will do my best. >> see that you do. >> bitch. >> i was the first one to ever say bitch on television and the censors let me do it because they said well, it was a nice, sweet old lady saying it. >> i only named those people for television, and i put outfits on them for television, but they've always been inside me. after i'm done being interviewed all day i go right into emily litella. i can hardly walk....