Love,Gilda
Aug 1, 2026 · 53 min · 12 segments
Steph DeWaegeneer, McKenna Tanner and I about one of the most enduring comedians ever Gilda Radner. We look at the 2018 documentary Love, Gilda. We see how Gilda affected generations of SNL alumni and…
Aug 1, 2026 · 53 min · 12 segments
Steph DeWaegeneer, McKenna Tanner and I about one of the most enduring comedians ever Gilda Radner. We look at the 2018 documentary Love, Gilda. We see how Gilda affected generations of SNL alumni and…
Steph DeWaegeneerGuest
Scott WhiteHost
McKenna TannerGuest
It was Nick at Night for me because from 12 to, uh, 1:30 in the morning, they would show a ha- they sh- they showed a half hour of Saturday Night Live, a half hour of SCTV, and a half hour of Laugh-In.
So that's where I think I first became conscious of Saturday Night Live and then all the players in it, including-
So from the time I was 10, 9 years old, I was watching Saturday Night Live.
And of course, uh, we'll talk about it, but Gilda being one of the founding cast members when the show debuted.
Um, uh, definitely if you ask me about somebody being influential in my, uh, improv career, Gilda would definitely be up there on the list.
Um, it started with me a lot with YouTube clips, um, because there's a very good, like, backlog of clips from, like, sh- episodes way, all the way from the '70s until now.
And so I did a lot of exploring that on my own, um, as well as seeing, like, the compilations they would put together around the holidays and kind of revisiting some of those old sketches.
So that's some of where I was first, like, seeing Gilda and recognizing that it was her.
Um, but it's funny, in getting ready for this podcast, I was talking to my parents about it and realized that, like, they had been making references to her bits-
So, uh, I've definitely always been in, in the periphery of it, and I did start watching Saturday Night Live, uh, regularly in the more kind of like recent era.
Like, when you look back at the first season or the first cast, she had some of the...
She and Belushi probably had some of the most iconic, uh, characters that, you're right, people still-
It was Nick at Night for me because from 12 to, uh, 1:30 in the morning, they would show a ha- they sh- they showed a half hour of Saturday Night Live, a half hour of SCTV, and a half hour of Laugh-In.
So that's where I think I first became conscious of Saturday Night Live and then all the players in it, including-
So from the time I was 10, 9 years old, I was watching Saturday Night Live.
And of course, uh, we'll talk about it, but Gilda being one of the founding cast members when the show debuted.
Um, uh, definitely if you ask me about somebody being influential in my, uh, improv career, Gilda would definitely be up there on the list.
Um, it started with me a lot with YouTube clips, um, because there's a very good, like, backlog of clips from, like, sh- episodes way, all the way from the '70s until now.
And so I did a lot of exploring that on my own, um, as well as seeing, like, the compilations they would put together around the holidays and kind of revisiting some of those old sketches.
So that's some of where I was first, like, seeing Gilda and recognizing that it was her.
Um, but it's funny, in getting ready for this podcast, I was talking to my parents about it and realized that, like, they had been making references to her bits-
So, uh, I've definitely always been in, in the periphery of it, and I did start watching Saturday Night Live, uh, regularly in the more kind of like recent era.
Like, when you look back at the first season or the first cast, she had some of the...
She and Belushi probably had some of the most iconic, uh, characters that, you're right, people still-
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