One more SNL40 remembrance, this from Denny Dillon, who was in the 1980-1981 cast, i.e., The Jean Doumanian Years. I don't think there was much chance the special would show any real highlights from non-Lorne years unless they featured Eddie Murphy…and they didn't even have many clips of him.
I always felt a little sorry for the performers who got trapped in that season, the season in which a new cast was thrown together from disparate backgrounds and expected to quickly become a team that equaled how great everyone thought Chevy, Gilda, Dan, John, Laraine, Bill, Jane and Garrett had been. Even with a great producer, that would have been a nearly-impossible expectation to meet. Ms. Dillon did some funny things during her brief time on that show.
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