Frivolity Break: Gilda Radner & Candice Bergen

An anonymous commenter just wrote a note on an old post I did of a Saturday Night Live bit from the original glory years. After all of the politics of the last couple of days--and given NBC's Women of SNL special a couple of nights ago--I thought it was the perfect antidote to the top-heavy seriousness of the last several days.

From the original post:
. . .a commercial for SNL clips online lead me to check out NBC.com, for embeddable clips of SNL videos. To my glee, I found my very favorite clip of Gilda Radner, from the classic 1975-1980 cast. In the clip, a rather tame PSA parody about the right to extreme stupidity was made hilarious by guest Candice Bergen's flub of a line, and Gilda Radner's superb save of the bit. It would probably have gone unremembered otherwise. Gilda was always my favorite, and her death ranks up there with Madeline Kahn's for "most tragic early deaths" of celebrities, in my book. Both were a loss to American comedy. As Opus the penguin said in Bloom County, "Gilda Radner isn't supposed to end."