Saturday Night Live (TV Series)

Ruth Gordon/Chuck Berry (1977)

Ruth Gordon: Self - Host, Essie Litella, Lillian Carter, Old lady, Mrs. Gillies

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• Ruth Gordon : Tonight, I'm here because I enjoy being here. I like to make an entrance! I like to get applause! And, when I'm on, I like to do something new, and is this ever new, tonight! Because tonight... the bunch believes that I, after sixty-one years of being an actress, that I am ready... for The Not Ready For Prime-Time Players. and how do you like this? Five will getcha ten... I am ready! Take it easy!

• Ruth Gordon : [during goodnights]  Well, when I opened up here I said I loved what I was gonna do, well you know a funny thing? Things don't always work out that way, I actually did love what I was gonna do. And you know, It's a live show and we all stayed alive. You all, we all, that makes it nice. And I'll tell ya what else made it nice: if you could see some of the bare ass changes I was making off there, you would have thought that might have been more entertaining than anything...

  [is drowned out by audience applause as the Not Ready for Primetime Players get up on stage]