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On October 11, 1975, I was 14. I was worried about boys, my weight, and my face, and my awful hair, and my stupid name. I was embarrassed by my neighborhood, by my sisters, by all of my parents. Nobody understood me, and I felt this more intensely than

anybody else in the whole world. What I'm saying is I was a teenager.

October 11, 1975 was a Saturday, and at 1130 that night, I turned on the TV and guess what

came on? The messy, chaotic, imperfectly perfect debut of Saturday Night Live. John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Lorraine Newman, Garrett Morris, and Chevy Chase. How do I describe the effect the show had on me? Like a curtain lifting, like a bomb going off? Yeah, but it was more. I had found my people. It might seem obvious in retrospect knowing what I pursued in my career since then, including being on that very show a few years later,

but I am telling you this. I knew it that night. It was just like, bang, a revelation.

The first sketch was Belushi and Michael O'Donohue, and at the end of it, Chevy came out in a

headset saying, live from New York, it's Saturday night. And then Billy Preston saying,

nothing from nothing leaves nothing, which is the live from New York, it's Saturday night. And then Billy Preston sang, Nothing from Nothing,

leaves nothing, which is the most sublime song ever. And then later, it was Janus Ian.

My God, Janus Ian, she sang straight through the TV to me and only me. I learned the truth at 17 that love was meant for beauty queens and high school girls with clear skin smiles who married young and then retired.

Oh, please, give me a break. The best teenage angst song ever, and I honestly, I was the angstiest longing, most longing teen.

And that song and Jane Curtin and Gilda Radner and Lorraine Newman, funny women.

I yearned to be with him.

The whole thing was like a life-changing earthquake.

Actually, it didn't change my life. I don't think that

art is like that. Art doesn't change your life. When it's good, it reflects your life. It shines a

light on your life that is so bright that you go out and you change it yourself. Not to get too

pretentious or anything, but whatever is my show.

And Shakespeare says it best. He says this, the purpose of playing, of acting of art, he says,

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