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Anne Beatts, original SNL writer who broke into boys' club of comedy, dies at 74


Anne Beatts, original SNL writer who broke into boys’ club of comedy, dies at 74
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© 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 before creating a television series of her own with the sitcom “Square Pegs,” died April 7 at her home in West Hollywood, Calif. She was 74. ....

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