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Doug Sivco (SNL key page 1980-1981, newcaster)

Doug Sivco (SNL key page 1980-1981, newcaster)

Season 1 Episode 207 Published 1 year, 11 months ago
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Doug Sivco discussed early kids TV; watching SNL in high school; going to Rutgers and being on the radio; trying out to be an NBC page; NBC Nightly News; Space Shuttle Columbia; Election 1980; literally bumping into to Ted Kennedy; Letterman morning show; getting the job at SNL; taking messages for the cast; remembering hosts Elliot Gould, Chevy Chase, and Rodney Dangerfield; Burt Reynolds saves his butt; getting his brother in almost every week; carrying out Mick Jagger; escorting out Deborah Harry; Gabe Kaplan being a jerk; last episode and after party; the new cast; hanging out with Eddie Murphy; Joe Piscopo, Charles Rocket, and Charlene Tilton; finding Cheap Trick's guitar in the green room; working at WNBC; leaving to do news in Alexandria, La.; going to Wilmington, NC and then Harrisburg, PA; the grind of local news; covering Penn State & Philly sports; bloopers; R. Budd Dwyer; went to work for Dean Witter; his current job; living in Cape Cod; community theater; meeting Gilbert Gottfried and being smitten by Linda Ronstadt and Jamie Lee Curtis


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