2. If You Don’t Buy This Magazine …
But there was…: Beard, Henry. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 13, 2016.
When they finally…: Fisher, Lucy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 29, 2016.
They had breakfast…: Fisher, Lucy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 29, 2016.
“In our minds…: Fisher, Lucy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 29, 2016.
It consisted of…: Simmons, Matty. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 12, 2016.
“They felt Doug…: Simmons, Matty. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 12, 2016.
But there was…: Beard, Henry. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 13, 2016.
Then write a book…: “Doug Kenney Speaking at UCLA 3/6/1972,” Youtube, accessed April 4, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xntFghVSVBo
Now, with circulation…: Beard, Henry. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 13, 2016.
Still, with the…: Mopsy Strange Kennedy, “Juvenile, puerile, sophomoric, jejune, nutty—and funny,” The New York Times, December 10, 1972. Accessed online.
Chevy grew up…: Rena Fruchter, I’m Chevy Chase … And You’re Not (London: Virgin Books, 2007), 10–14.
He could apologize…: Hendra, Tony. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. March 23, 2017.
And we did…: Flaherty, Joe. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 18, 2016.
“But you forgave…: Brett Martin, “Harold Ramis Gets the Last Laugh,” GQ, May 2009. Accessed online.
Here was the generation…: Hendra, Tony. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. March 23, 2017.
But, he went on…: Mel Gussow, “Lemmings Fails Early, Recovers Later,” The New York Times, January 26, 1973. Accessed online.
I felt like…: Tony Schwartz, “College Humor Comes Back,” Newsweek, October 23, 1978, 97.
Especially when the…: Simmons, Matty. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 12, 2016.
He would smoke…: Kelly, Sean. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 25, 2016.
“It sucks…: Beard, Henry. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 13, 2016.
By weight of…: Thomas Carney, “They Only Laughed When It Hurt,” New Times, August 21, 1978. Accessed online.
It would go on…: Charles Nicol, “Ich bin ein Kefauver Senior,” Harper’s Magazine, April 1975. Accessed online.
The idea was…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September, 1998.
Second City was…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September, 1998.
Like several…: Murray, Bill. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. June 7, 2010.
He could do it…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
That’s how…: Kelly, Sean. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 25, 2016.
3. Live from New York
And at Second City…: Murray, Bill. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. June 7, 2010.
That’s where Sean…: Kelly, Sean. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 25, 2016.
It was an…: Murray, Bill. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. June 7, 2010.
Bill had just…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
He was in…: Murray, Bill. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. June 7, 2010.
I did do…: David Felton, “Bill Murray: Maniac For All Seasons,” Rolling Stone, April 20, 1978, 29.
The bells were…: Robert Schnakenberg, The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray (Philadelphia: Quirk Books, 2015), 218.
What they could…: Kelly, Sean. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 25, 2016.
He hired him…: Simmons, Matty. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 12, 2016.
That kind of…: Jeff Labrecque, “Bill Murray: The Curious Case of Hollywood’s White Whale,” Entertainment Weekly, July 2, 2010, 48.
At the Lampoon…: Murray, Bill. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. June 7, 2010.
We were taking…: Flaherty, Joe. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 18, 2016.
It spoke to…: Reitman, Ivan. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 14, 2016.
“But he was…: Reitman, Ivan. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 14, 2016.
In The New York Times…: Mel Gussow, “Stage: A New Lampoon,” The New York Times, March 3, 1975. Accessed online.
“That somehow our…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
Thanks to a…: Simmons, Matty. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 12, 2016.
I thought about…: Beard, Henry. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 13, 2016.
According to Simmons…: Simmons, Matty. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 12, 2016.
Said Kenney later…: Carney, “They Only Laughed When It Hurt.” Accessed online.
“Matty would walk…: Kelly, Sean. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 25, 2016.
We had to…: Kelly, Sean. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 25, 2016.
As they sat…: Hendra, Tony. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. March 23, 2017.
Kenney’s reaction…: Robert Sam Anson, “The Life and Death of a Comic Genius,” Esquire, October 1981. Accessed online.
But Simmons…: Simmons, Matty. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 12, 2016.
In 1968, Michaels…: Kliph Nesteroff, The Comedians (New York: Grove Press, 2015), 268–9.
Michaels was given…: Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller, Live from New York, (New York: Little, Brown, 2002), 87.
Michaels hired Chase…: Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad, Saturday Night (New York: Vintage, 1987), 55.
The only reason…: Charles M. Young, “From Samurai Saturday Night Live to Matinee Idol,” Rolling Stone, August 10, 1978. Accessed online.
So he…: Flaherty, Joe. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 18, 2016.
“We wanted to…: Shales and Miller, Live From New York, 69.
But they were…: Timothy Crouse, “Bill Murray: The Rolling Stone Interview,” Rolling Stone, August 16, 1984. Accessed online.
For however long…: John J. O’Connor, “TV View,” The New York Times, November 30, 1975. Accessed online.
“SNL spoke to…: Reitman, Ivan. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 14, 2016.
Not everyone was…: Landis, John. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 9, 2016.
They throw me…: Hill and Weingrad, Saturday Night, 218.
The article was…: Jeff Greenfield, “He’s Chevy Chase and You’re Not, and He’s TV’s Hot New Comedy Star,” New York, December 22, 1975. Accessed online.
And he said…: Fruchter, I’m Chevy Chase … And You’re Not, 41.
Industry sources report…: Greenfield, “He’s Chevy Chase and You’re Not, and He’s TV’s Hot New Comedy Star.” Accessed online.
The others are…: Greenfield, “He’s Chevy Chase and You’re Not, and He’s TV’s Hot New Comedy Star.” Accessed online.
For its part…: Fruchter, I’m Chevy Chase … And You’re Not, 50.
I think he’d…: Shales and Miller, Live From New York, 92.
So she gave…: Chase, Chevy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 27, 2010.
It was…: Chase, Chevy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 27, 2010.
“Lorne used to say…: Shales and Miller, Live From New York, 81.
“I knew that…: Simmons, Matty. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 12, 2016.
4. Knowledge Is Good
As part of…: Reitman, Ivan. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 14, 2016.
He paid Ramis…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 1998.
So we tried…: Reitman, Ivan. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 14, 2016.
He was just…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
They called it…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 1998.
So I said…: Simmons, Matty. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 12, 2016.
They offered to…: Miller, Chris. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 31, 2016.
And there was…: Miller, Chris. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 31, 2016.
And, in our…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 1998.
“It was funny…: Simmons, Matty. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 12, 2016.
Whenever Belushi would…: Miller, Chris. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 31, 2016.
“Even when you…: Reitman, Ivan. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 14, 2016.
“He really thought…: Simmons, Matty. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 12, 2016.
But Mount and Daniel…: Simmons, Matty. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 12, 2016.
Ramis, Kenney, and Miller…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 1998.
“Chris said…: Mount, Thom. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 24, 2016.
“And I remember…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 1998.
They had four…: Flaherty, Joe. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 18, 2016.
“We thought…: Sheldon Patinkin, The Second City: Backstage at the World’s Greatest Comedy Theater (Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2000), 119.
He kept saying…: Reitman, Ivan. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 14, 2016.
Of course…: Reitman, Ivan. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 14, 2016.
Back in LA…: Daniel, Sean. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 8, 2016.
At twenty-one…: Landis, John. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 9, 2016.
It was…: Daniel, Sean. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 8, 2016.
“But it was…: Landis, John. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 9, 2016.
“The fact that…: Landis, John. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 9, 2016.
“They didn’t want…: Miller, Chris. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 31, 2016.
But he did…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 1998.
And I’m working…: Landis, John. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 9, 2016.
I hadn’t lived…: Chase, Chevy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 27, 2010.
Five minutes later…: Landis, John. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 9, 2016.
In the end…: Schwartz, “College Humor Comes Back,” 91.
So now comes…: Landis, John. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 9, 2016.
But since this…: Landis, John. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 9, 2016.
I thought to myself…: McGill, Bruce. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 1998.
“I thought…: Martin, “Harold Ramis Gets the Last Laugh.” Accessed online.
In October of 1977…: Landis, John. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 9, 2016.
You can shoot here…: Reitman, Ivan. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 14, 2016.
“Doug loved…: Reitman, Ivan. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 14, 2016.
I ended up…: Widdoes, Jamie. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 1998.
Adds McGill…: McGill, Bruce. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 1998.
“If I walked in…: Landis, John. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 9, 2016.
“Belushi would have…: Matheson, Tim. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 1998.
He truly was…: Landis, John. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 9, 2016.
As for Miller…: Miller, Chris. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 31, 2016.
They just…: Reitman, Ivan. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 14, 2016.
He’d taped…: Riegert, Peter. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 1998.
“After that…: Landis, John. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 9, 2016.
It was the…: Boxofficemojo.com.
Roger Ebert gave…: Roger Ebert, “Animal House,” The Chicago Sun-Times, July 28, 1978. Accessed online.
By the end…: Boxofficemojo.com.
We wanted to…: Mount, Thom. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 24, 2016.
By late October…: Boxofficemojo.com.
5. Tinseltown Gold Rush
And then when…: Landis, John. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 9, 2016.
Though Kenney…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 1998.
But after the movie…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 1998.
We got some…: Miller, Chris. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 31, 2016.
Landis had been…: Landis, John. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 9, 2016.
While Simmons would…: Matty Simmons, If You Don’t Buy This Book We’ll Kill This Dog (New York: Barricade Books, 1994), 143.
And I went…: Greisman, Alan. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 9, 2016.
The guy laughed…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
And John Belushi…: Schwartz, “College Humor Comes Back,” 91.
We all had…: Reitman, Ivan. Interviewed by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 14, 2016.
By 1979…: Peter Biskind, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998), 433.
“To us…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
“After Animal House…: Daniel, Sean. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 8, 2016.
And that was…: Miller, Chris. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 31, 2016.
It was a lot…: Greisman, Alan. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 9, 2016
.
It stood for…: Geoff Edgers, “The Greatest Role of Bill Murray’s Life Has Been Playing Bill Murray,” The Washington Post, October 19, 2016. Accessed online.
Made for just…: Boxofficemojo.com.
There he found…: Nancy Griffin and Kim Masters, Hit & Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), 13–15.
He would soon…: Griffin and Masters, Hit & Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood, 22.
He told her…: Griffin and Masters, Hit & Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood, 29.
At one point…: Cameron Crowe, “The Kristoffersons Make It,” Rolling Stone, February 23, 1978. Accessed online.
A Star Is Born…: Boxofficemojo.com.
He followed it…: Boxofficemojo.com.
In April 1978…: Griffin and Masters, Hit & Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood, 57.
He was a…: Mike Medavoy with Josh Young, You’re Only As Good As Your Next One (New York: Atria Books, 2002), 98–99.
Peters just happened…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
I wanted to look…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
You look like…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
Still, it wouldn’t…: Boxofficemojo.com.
“Harold pitched his…: Medavoy, Mike. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 15, 2016.
And I’ll never forget…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
But he figured…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
“Doug was going…: Doyle-Murray, Brian. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 9, 2016.
6. Like The Dick Van Dyke Show
“To my regret…: Medavoy, Mike. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 15, 2016.
“I must say…: Mount, Thom. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 24, 2016.
I think he…: Reitman, Ivan. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 14, 2016.
Peters told them…: Peters, Jon. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 24, 2010.