Inventively titled The Saturday Night Live Movie, the script is not based on an already-familiar reoccurring SNL character, but rather is a series of small sketches, a bit like the Zucker-Abrams-Zucker Airplane! precursor, Kentucky Fried Movie.
And it would have featured some of the strongest and best writers to ever grace the halls of 30 Rock -- check out the list of sketches and their writers:
"Welcome To The Movies" by Conan O'Brien, Robert Smigel, and Greg Daniels
"Young Bush At Yale" by Jim Downey, Al Franken, and Robert Smigel
"Cineplex" by Robert Smigel, Conan O'Brien, and Greg Daniels
"Appeal #1" by Jim Downey and Al Franken
"Romance" by Al Franken and Tom Davis
"Crack Rap" by Al Franken and Tom Davis
"Appeal #2" by Jim Downey and Al Franken
"Dad's Car" by Robert Smigel, Conan O'Brien and Greg Daniels
"Bum Piss Canyon/Apology" by Tom Davis, Jim Downey, and Al Franken
"Appeal #3" by Jim Downey and Al Franken
"E.T.'s" by Greg Daniels, Robert Smigel, Jim Downey, and Conan O'Brien
"On The Farm" by Robert Smigel, Conan O'Brien, Greg Daniels, and Al Franken
"Wonderful Life" by Jim Downey and Al Franken
"Tip Stealer" by George Meyer
"Movie's Over" by Conan O'Brien, Robert Smigel, and Greg Daniels
"Blooper Credits" by Conan O'Brien and Jim Downey
The script ranges from the gleefully bizarre and hilarous, like "Cineplex" and "Young Bush at Yale," to the stilted and by-now-dated "Crack Rap" and "Wonderful Life" which pokes fun at Ted Turner's penchant for colorizing movies (Remember that? No? Ask your parents.).
Honestly, it's a pity that, for whatever reason, this fell into the yawning chasm of development hell. Saturday Night Live's strength has always been punchy, short bursts of comedy. Asking a thinly drawn character born out of a 3 am bong rip to shoulder an entire hundred minute film is usually an impossible task, but a rapid-fire sketch movie featuring some of the most talented comedy writers in the business could have been an instant classic. At the very least, it might've spared us the comedy apocalypse that was A Night at the Roxbury, The Ladies' Man and MacGruber.
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