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Posted May 9th 2009 12:50PM by Eliot Glazer
Filed under: OpEd, Saturday Night Live, Reality-Free
Radner.
Louis-Dreyfus.
Poehler.
Fey.
Shannon.

Suffice it to say, the number of women who became famous on
Saturday Night Live before graduating to solo success is few and far between. Sure, Gilda Radner can be considered a pioneer in the art of sketch comedy. And
Julia Louis-Dreyfus undoubtedly honed her comedic skills before becoming a sitcom icon on
Seinfeld. And, yes,
Tina Fey can easily be considered a heroine to comedy nerds everywhere who have witnessed her climb from
Weekend Update anchor to
Mean Girls scribe to single-handedly decimating the vice presidential chances of one certain gun-wieldin', six-pack-totin' Alaskan governor.
But, sadly, the number of men who left Studio 8 for the superstardom of Planet Hollywood (not the theme restaurant) easily outnumbers the ladies. For every
Amy Poehler, there's a
Will Ferrell. And a Bill Murray. And a
Mike Myers and
Eddie Murphy and
Adam Sandler (although, to be fair, there's also a
David Gary Kroeger, A. Whitney Brown, and Charles Rocket for every Melanie Hutsell, too). (And for the record, no, you shouldn't recognize those names.)
Continue reading Why isn't Jan Hooks famous?
Posted Feb 2nd 2009 11:02AM by Eliot Glazer
Filed under: OpEd, Lost, Casting

Call us crazy, but wouldn't it be rad if Lindelof and Cuse, the bigwigs behind
Lost, had a little fun in light of the superspeed at which we're plowing through the final two seasons of the show? Specifically, would it not be absolutely amazing if one of the characters from
Lost left the island for greener pastures, and those greener pastures were a sitcom?
Picture it: Rose Henderson (L. Scott Caldwell) (disclaimer: my favorite character on the show) has escaped the island with her hubby, Bernard (and, because it's a sitcom, she's completely healthy). The lovebirds have returned to The Bronx, where Bernard (Sam Anderson) has resumed his dental career while Rose has taken a job as a safety specialist at Kennedy Airport (*wink wink*).
Continue reading Lost & Found - the Lost spin-off of our dreams