Title: A wry slice of SNL
Product review: Jay Mohr's "Gasping for Airtime, Two Years in the Trenches of Saturday Night Live" was not at all what I expected. I expected another tell all tome, full of excess and raw humor. I was pulled into Mohr's account of his bewildering adustment to the show's traditions, cliques, speech and hours. Full of snippets featuring some of the musical guests from those two years, Charles Barkley's merciless pummeling of a stunt Barney , and Chris Farley's unabashed attempts to make fellow cast members laugh on air it is a window on the Saturday Night Live we see today. Jay Mohr is likeable, and I found myself worrying along with him as his body and psyche attempted to fit into the wildly energetic SNL workplace. Some stories made me wince, then laugh.
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