Jane Curtin is opening up about her days on Saturday Night Live.
If you don’t know, the 75-year-old actor was one of the original stars of the NBC comedy sketch show, alongside Laraine Newman, John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, Garrett Morris, and Chevy Chase.
In a new interview, Jane got candid and admitted she didn’t think the show was actually funny then.
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Jane told People that NBC had sent her a “five year compilation video of Saturday Night Live‘s first five years a few years ago, and I gave one to my daughter.”
“We were out visiting her daughter one Christmas, and her husband said, ‘Have you ever watched any of these? And I said, ‘God, I haven’t seen them in a long time,’” she recalled, before saying he asked if they could watch one.
Jane went on, “So we sat around the TV, and I had that sort of anticipatory, open-mouth grin that people have when they’re waiting for something to happen, that they know is going to be really great. And … it never happened. It wasn’t funny. Not one thing was funny. There was not one utterance of a laugh or a giggle.”
She did clarify that the show wasn’t exactly bad in the early days, it was just “one of those, you had to be there in the moment things.”
“That’s what happens with live TV, and with topical TV. It gets dated after a while. Remember, this was almost 50 years ago. But after we rewatched, I was like, ‘That really wasn’t a very good show. It was terrible!’”
Over the years, there have been several stars who have been banned from the show.
