We went to smart opening-night parties, Dolly Parton’s first performance in New York at the Bottom Line on May 14, 1977, and lots of Saturday Night Live parties. I hosted the show four times in the Seventies and marveled that they could write anything, so fucked up did they get. Python always wrote office hours. The idea that you would try to write comedy while under the influence of anything was anathema to us. On Tuesday nights on SNL, they would write all night, the offices reeking with the scent of marijuana. The host was expected to stay up and hang with them as they got more stupefied
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