people making the news is a pretty nice formula. let s take a look at the top story, shall we? anwar sadat buys himself an inflatable child. this story and more coming up on weekend update. weekend update initially was about irreverence. it was about a middle finger to the powers that be. for on the spot report, let s good live to lorraine newman at the blaine hotel. it was cathartic for people who saw the hypocrisy in the establishment. i don t think people took update seriously. it was a relief. first man to walk on the moon neil armstrong lost a finger when he jumped from a truck and caught his wedding ring on a barn door at his home. while jumping out of the truck the former astronaut was quoted as saying, one small step for man, one giant step for oohhhh! aahhhh! it was a joke basket is what it was. you know. but it became less and less that way. it became more personalized. as it went on. much less about a character doing the news, and by the time you get
we d just been through watergate. the idea we could laugh at the people making the news is a pretty nice formula. let s take a look at the top story, shall we? anwar sadat buys himself an inflatable child. this story and more coming up on weekend update. weekend update initially was about irreverence. it was about a middle finger to the powers that be. for on the spot report, let s good live to lorraine newman at the blaine hotel. it was cathartic for people who saw the hypocrisy in the establishment. i don t think people took update seriously. it was a relief. first man to walk on the moon neil armstrong lost a finger when he jumped from a truck and caught his wedding ring on a barn door at his home. while jumping out of the truck the former astronaut was quoted as saying, one small step for man, one giant step for oohhhh! aahhhh!
i need laraine and john. laraine and john. gilda had boundless energy, and she was always looking for something that would hold her interest. so she found a way to take what she was already doing that was funny and take it to another level. ladies and gentlemen, five minutes. five minutes, please. five minutes. places, please. act one, places, please. places for act one. [ applause ] it was the dream of my life to be on broadway.
share this with lorraine newman and jane curtain. we got our own secretaries to deal with the fan mail and, you know, some people had management, and they were working for them to have something outside of the show. everybody knew that this funny camelot was going to disband in some way. people were getting pretty burnt out. john and dan were off doing the blues brothers. i think that more demands were made on gilda, and so i think she was under more stress. as a result of that. do you have your own aspirations as to what directions you want to move in? that s something i m having
so, um and she did have a period of remission, so we thought, great, everything is going to be fine. so it was that much harder, and i can only imagine what she went through, for it to come back and to realize that there was nothing that could be done. she had an immeasurable impact on comedy. what do you think her impact was on comedy, in the world in general? i think she did break boundaries in a lot of ways, and i think comedians like amy schumer and sarah silverman, i think she would have loved them because they really embody that, that kind of brashness and bravado and anything for a laugh no matter how personal it might be. that was really something that i noah peeled to her, so i think she would have loved that. well, lorraine, i am deeply