News about Gilda Radner

Bob Tischler, a former head writer for Saturday Night Live, has died at age 78.  His son Zeke told the New York Times his father died following a battle with pancreatic cancer.  Tischler passed on July 13 at his home in Bodega Bay, California. 

People were made to laugh on Saturday Night Live, but a new film would focus on the drama that inspired the late night staple in the 1970s. Jason Reitman, 46, who has already cast Ella Hunt to play the late Gilda Radner, Rebecca Fairn as Laraine Newman, and Kim Matula as Jane Curtin, has now decided which actors will play the male characters in The Not-Ready-for-Primetime Players. Gabriel LaBelle, 21, best known for his role as Sammy, a budding filmmaker in Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmen, will play creator and producer Lorne Michaels.

In the forthcoming film SNL 1975, Dickinson actress Ella Hunt will play comedy legend Gilda Radner. Hunt, 25, will appear alongside Emily Fairn and Kim Matula, 35, as the long-running sketch comedy show's former cast members, Radner, Laraine Newman, and Jane Curtin, respectively, according to Deadline.