Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss: The Early Days of SNL from Someone Who Was There

About this book

39 Years of Short Term Memory Loss is a seriously funny offbeat and irreverent memoir that chronicles the early days of Saturday Night Live and features some of its greatest personalitiesAl Franken Lorne Michaels Dan Aykroyd John Belushi Bill Murray Michael ODonoghue and Chris Farley. Written by Tom Davis an original SNL writer and comedy partner of Al Franken 39 Years of Short Term Memory Loss is the story of coming of age in the 60s and a spellbinding account of the birth and rise of one of televisions most celebrated shows Saturday Night Live. Tom Davis memoir is filled with wry candid anecdotes about his days at Saturday Night Live and friendship with its stars. But it also the story of Davis own coming of ageescaping his conservative roots in suburban Minneapolis traveling the world and reveling in the hippie culture of 1960s San Francisco. The author finds the highs and lows of his own career to be an hilarious counterpoint to the meteoric rise of SNL and his friends growing celebrity. Hysterical lucid and wise 39 Years of Short Term Memory Loss is a free spirited unrepentant romp through an era of sex drugs and comedy.