Jane Curtin Calls Old ‘Saturday Night Live’ Sketches ‘Terrible’ After Rewatching Early Episodes: ‘Not One Thing Was Funny’

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Former “Saturday Night Live” star, Jane Curtin, was taken by surprise by the longstanding show’s humourless early episodes. Curtin, who served as one of the original “SNL” cast members, recently rewatched the award-winning comedy show’s earliest sketches with her family and was shocked by the absent laughter. “We were sent the five year compilation video of ‘Saturday Night Live”s first five years a few years ago, and I gave one to my daughter,” Curtin, 75, recalled to People. “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.’ READ MORE: Jane Curtin and Laraine Newman Remember The Big Backstage ‘SNL’ Fight Between Bill Murray And Chevy Chase “He said, ‘would you mind if we watch one?’ And I said, ‘No, great!

Pick one!'” she continued, before sharing that things didn’t play out as she’d expected. “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,” she explained. “And… it never happened. “It wasn’t funny.

Not one thing was funny,” Curtin said of the compilation of sketches that played on the TV screen in front of her family. “There was not one utterance of a laugh or a giggle.” During “SNL”‘s 1975 premiere, the actress debuted as one of the Not Ready for Prime Time Players, starring alongside fellow comedians Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, and Gilda Radner.