<p>Ferris Butler and his biographer D.B. Frick joined me to discuss his garage band version of SNL &quot;Waste Meet News&quot;; his love for Sid Caesar and Ernie Kovacs; Brooklyn in the 50&#39;s and 60&#39;s; his pilot for the Vintage Seltzer Hour with Michael O&#39;Donoghue and Garrett Morris; going to NYU film school and being taught by Martin Scorsese and classmates with Billy Crystal; creating Waste Meat News; having Radames Pera on; the budget; New York Magazine says Waste Meat is being copied by SNL; getting hired by Jean Doumanian; how the crew was excited for new season. but the press was already hostile; not getting anything on the premiere; getting Leather Weather on the Malcolm McDowell show; writing the tag to Eddie Murphy&#39;s first appearance; writing Tort-U-Matic and her monologue for Jamie Lee Curtis; co-writing Reagan Co for the Robert Hays episode; Howard Stern has beef about his Leather Weather Girl vs. Ferris&#39; sketch; writing the Kung Fu prostitution sketch and slipping a watersports joke by the censors; the difference between head writers Mason Williams and Stevens and Moore; writing one joke for Weekend Update; Brian Doyle-Murray; Bill hosts; he was recommended by Letty Aronson; more Bill Murray stories; is Ferris Butler, Ferris Bueller - Del Close wanted to do a movie about him, Quentin Tarantino believes it; writing &quot;Prison Confession&quot; sketch for Ray Sharkey episode; writing a sketch that got cut at dress; writing the &quot;Big Brother&quot; sketch for Deborah Harry episode; the re-evaluation of season 6; Name That Sin; musical guests; saving his sketches; not being surprised Dick Ebersol didn&#39;t as him back; not getting credit for writing for SNL; not being invited to any anniversary; Waste Meat News is in the Paley Center for Media</p>

Ian Talks Comedy

Ian Fermaglich

Ferris Butler and D.B. Frick (1980-81 SNL writer and biographer)

APR 27, 202463 MIN
Ian Talks Comedy

Ferris Butler and D.B. Frick (1980-81 SNL writer and biographer)

APR 27, 202463 MIN

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<p>Ferris Butler and his biographer D.B. Frick joined me to discuss his garage band version of SNL &quot;Waste Meet News&quot;; his love for Sid Caesar and Ernie Kovacs; Brooklyn in the 50&#39;s and 60&#39;s; his pilot for the Vintage Seltzer Hour with Michael O&#39;Donoghue and Garrett Morris; going to NYU film school and being taught by Martin Scorsese and classmates with Billy Crystal; creating Waste Meat News; having Radames Pera on; the budget; New York Magazine says Waste Meat is being copied by SNL; getting hired by Jean Doumanian; how the crew was excited for new season. but the press was already hostile; not getting anything on the premiere; getting Leather Weather on the Malcolm McDowell show; writing the tag to Eddie Murphy&#39;s first appearance; writing Tort-U-Matic and her monologue for Jamie Lee Curtis; co-writing Reagan Co for the Robert Hays episode; Howard Stern has beef about his Leather Weather Girl vs. Ferris&#39; sketch; writing the Kung Fu prostitution sketch and slipping a watersports joke by the censors; the difference between head writers Mason Williams and Stevens and Moore; writing one joke for Weekend Update; Brian Doyle-Murray; Bill hosts; he was recommended by Letty Aronson; more Bill Murray stories; is Ferris Butler, Ferris Bueller - Del Close wanted to do a movie about him, Quentin Tarantino believes it; writing &quot;Prison Confession&quot; sketch for Ray Sharkey episode; writing a sketch that got cut at dress; writing the &quot;Big Brother&quot; sketch for Deborah Harry episode; the re-evaluation of season 6; Name That Sin; musical guests; saving his sketches; not being surprised Dick Ebersol didn&#39;t as him back; not getting credit for writing for SNL; not being invited to any anniversary; Waste Meat News is in the Paley Center for Media</p>