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    Gasping for Airtime: Two Years in the Trenches at Saturday Night Live
    Gasping for Airtime: Two Years in the Trenches at Saturday Night Live
    Gasping for Airtime: Two Years in the Trenches at Saturday Night Live
    Audiobook (abridged)2 hours

    Gasping for Airtime: Two Years in the Trenches at Saturday Night Live

    Written by Jay Mohr

    Narrated by Jay Mohr

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    About this audiobook

    A hilarious look at what life was really like inside Saturday Night Live

    When 21-year old Jay Mohr moved from New Jersey to New York City to pursue his dream of stand-up stardom, he never thought the first real job he'd land would be on Saturday Night Live. But, surprisingly, that's just what he did. What followed were two unbelievable, grueling, and exciting years of feverishly keeping pace with his talented cohorts, outmaneuvering the notorious vices that claimed the lives of other cast members, and struggling at all costs for the holy grail of late-night show business: airtime.

    In Gasping for Airtime, Jay offers an intimate account of the inner workings of Saturday Night Live. He dishes on the guest hosts (John Travolta, Shannen Doherty, Charles Barkley), the musical guests (Kurt Cobain, Steven Tyler, Eric Clapton), and of course his SNL castmates (Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Mike Myers and David Spade). Refreshingly honest and laugh-out-loud funny, this audio will appeal to both fans of Jay Mohr and to devotees of Saturday Night Live.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateJun 1, 2004
    ISBN9781593975852
    Gasping for Airtime: Two Years in the Trenches at Saturday Night Live
    Author

    Jay Mohr

    The multi-talented Jay Mohr's career has spanned over a decade. He first received audience notice with his dead-on impressions of Christopher Walken, Dick Vitale and Sean Penn on "Saturday Night Live." Soon after that, he landed his breakthrough film role as a rival sports agent in the blockbuster hit "Jerry Maguire," and followed that up in a touching good-guy turn in "Picture Perfect." Other film credits include "Playing By Heart," "Suicide Kings," "Seeing Other People," "Even Money," "The Groomsmen," "Pay it Forward," "Street Kings" and "Go," as well as comedic leads in "King's Ransom" and "Are We There Yet?"  On television, Mohr created, executive produced and hosted "Last Comic Standing," now in its sixth season. Other credits include "Action" and his most recent role as Professor Rick Payne on the CBS series "Ghost Whisperer." CBS’s brand new blockbuster “Gary Unmarried” stars Jay Mohr and has been honored with the "Favorite New TV Comedy" award at the 35th People's Choice Awards.             Mohr is also well known for his sports work as host of FOX Sports Net's "NFL This Morning" and narrator of the award-winning "Beyond the Glory." Additionally, Mohr executive produced and hosted the ESPN series "Mohr Sports" an original weekly comedy/music/sports talk hour and he continues to sell out venues across the country with his stand-up routine. 

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    • 4/5
      I stumbled across this book titled when trying to find the name of Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny. Her wikipedia page said she had been on SNL and declined to be in a sketch because she felt it was too stereotyped. I'm not sure what link tripped me over to Jay Mohr but on his page it referenced this book.

      (After listening to the book I see great irony in this).

      On a wiki for the book ,a review said that rather than dishing on the cast it was more the story of a guy struggling with his anxiety and his self while on a very stressful set. Imperfect prose for an imperfect story. Gossip can be tantalizing but honestly I wanted to hear exactly that -- a real persons story in the context of what I imagine to be a very stressful set. I was looking to see if my impressions of a show where you bash out a ton of skits in a week (or as I heard some writer or cast member whose name I can't remember say, it was like slogging up skit mountain) was correct, and I wanted to hear it from a human perspective.

      And that's exactly what you get. Imperfect prose about an imperfect human on the set of a show that was definitely crafted in the era of cocaine. I am very satisfied with the read. My biggest complaint is that you get these weird skips in the book. At first I thought my headphones were messing up but then I realized it was the audio. I'm not fond of that and wish they would fix it.