There was once a time SNL was truly a ground-breaking show. It birthed some of this most hilarious ensembles in comedic history. Among them were some of the greats, and two of those greats were undeniably Bill Murray and Gilda Radner.
Radner delighted fans on SNL from 1975 to 1980. It was about four years later she married long-time love Gene Wilder and was diagnosed shortly after with ovarian cancer. While she was incredibly sick, she ended up going to a late night party full of the SNL crew where Bill Murray was DJ-ing.
In the book Live from New York: an Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, Murray recounted the take of that evening and shared a truly heart-wrenching story.
"There was a collection of like the funniest people in the world at this party," began Murray. "Somehow Sam Kinison sticks in my brain. The whole Monty Python group was there, most of us from the show, a lot of other funny people, and Gilda. Gilda showed up and she'd already had cancer and gone into remission and then had it again, I guess. Anyway she was slim. We hadn't seen her in a long time. And she started doing, 'I've got to go,' and she was going to leave, and I was like, 'Going to leave?' It felt like she was going to really leave forever."
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So that's when Murray got the brilliant idea of carrying her around to say goodbye to people.
"So we started carrying her around, in a way we could only do with her. "We carried her up and down the stairs, around the house, repeatedly, for a long time, until I was exhausted. Then Danny (Aykroyd) did it for a while. Then I did it again. We just kept carrying her; we did it in teams. We kept carrying her around, but like upside down, every which way- over your shoulder and under your arm, carrying her like luggage."
"And that went on for more than an hour- maybe an hour and a half- just carrying her around and saying, 'She's leaving! This could be it! Now come on, this could be the last time we see her. Gilda's leaving- hello?'"
He says they worked every angle for it, saying goodbye to the same folks 10 or 20 times.
"And because these people were really funny, every person we'd drag her up to would just do like five minutes on her, with Gilda upside down in this sort of tortured position, which she absolutely loved. She was laughing so hard we could have lost her right then and there. It was just one of the best parties I've ever been to in my life. I'll always remember it. It was the last time I saw her."
Sadly, Radner died in 1989 from her illness, but the SNL crew and so many other Hollywood stars have kept her memory alive and well.
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