The release date for the English version of 'Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live' by
Tom Shales is Jan 2002. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
"Nobody really knew what to expect, not even young writer Lorne Michaels, when he convinced NBC executives to take a bet on a new weekend late-night comedy series. However, Saturday Night Live, which debuted in 1975 and is still going strong today, would transform television. It broke taboos that had stifled TV for decades, launched bold new stars with names like Belushi, Radner, Chase, and Murray, and had such an effect on American politics, humor, and daily life that even US presidents had to pay note." Now, for the first-ever oral history of Saturday Night Live, Tom Shales and author James Andrew Miller bring together writers, performers, contributors, special guests, and artisans from 1974, when the show was still just a notion, to 2002, when it had long ago established itself as an institution. Dozens of celebrities recount the behind-the-scenes anecdotes, feuds, follies, drugs, sex, challenges, and disasters in their own words—including intimate facts never previously made public. In addition to writers like Al Franken, Conan O'Brien, Larry David, Rosie Shuster, Jack Handey, Robert Smigel, Don Novello, and others who got their big breaks as part of the SNL team, Shales and Miller have interviewed a galaxy of stars, including Mike Myers, Chris Rock, Bill Murray, Tom Hanks, Adam Sandler, Chevy Chase, Will Ferrell, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Martin, Jon Lovitz, Jane Curtin, Billy Crystal, Martin Short, Dana Carvey, Tina Fey, Jimmy Fallon, Chris Kattan, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Garrett Morris, Molly Shannon, Damon Wayans, Chris Elliott, Julia Sweeney,, and Paul Simon.