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Found: The Script For The Lost SNL Movie

71910snl.jpg Hitfix's Drew McWeeny has been writing a weekly column on SNL and the movies, evaluating sketches-turned-films and stars' post-SNL careers. This week, he uncovered a screenplay for The Saturday Night Live Movie, a never-made anthology comedy film satirizing the movie-going experience. Written in 1990 by an all-star cast of writers including Conan O'Brien, Al Franken, Robert Smigel, George Meyers, and Greg Daniels, it features sketches mocking then-President Bush (41), a parody of E.T. and "Bum Piss Canyon," an "American Geographic"-style special that "traces the titular canyon through New York City, shooting rivers of piss in various gutters like a majestic natural wonder. And then there's an apology for showing that to the audience. And that's pretty much that."

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  • dglass

    mcweeny. that is all.

  • Whammo

    Considering how god awful the SNL movies that actually get made are, one can only imagine what would happen to one's mind if they read this.

    Perhaps we have stumbled upon the ideal replacement for water boarding?

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