Gasping for Airtime, Jay Mohr
Gasping for Airtime, Jay Mohr
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Gasping for Airtime
Two Years in the Trenches at Saturday Night Live

Author: Jay Mohr

Narrator: Jay Mohr

Abridged: 2 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/01/2004

Synopsis

A hilarious look at what life was really like inside Saturday Night Live

When 21-year old Jay Mohr moved from New Jersey to New York City to pursue his dream of stand-up stardom, he never thought the first real job he'd land would be on Saturday Night Live. But, surprisingly, that's just what he did. What followed were two unbelievable, grueling, and exciting years of feverishly keeping pace with his talented cohorts, outmaneuvering the notorious vices that claimed the lives of other cast members, and struggling at all costs for the holy grail of late-night show business: airtime.

In Gasping for Airtime, Jay offers an intimate account of the inner workings of Saturday Night Live. He dishes on the guest hosts (John Travolta, Shannen Doherty, Charles Barkley), the musical guests (Kurt Cobain, Steven Tyler, Eric Clapton), and of course his SNL castmates (Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Mike Myers and David Spade). Refreshingly honest and laugh-out-loud funny, this audio will appeal to both fans of Jay Mohr and to devotees of Saturday Night Live.

About Jay Mohr

Jay Mohr, a comedian and actor, was a cast member on Saturday Night Live and, more recently, was seen on the television show Ghost Whisperer.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Neil on December 18, 2012

Full disclosure: I did not read this book. I got the book on CD from the public library. By doing so, I think I got a much better product than the written book. A few friends who read this book said that Mohr comes across as whiny, and the reviews on this site seem to concur with that. Since I always......more

Goodreads review by Randee on January 17, 2015

Once again I am reminded of the Fran Lebowitz quote, "Spilling your guts is about as charming as it sounds." For the life of me, I can't imagine why Jay Mohr wrote this book. I've seen him do stand up and I think he is a pretty good comic. I could understand if he wanted to write a memoir about his......more

Goodreads review by Mediaman on June 30, 2013

This book is proof that SNL is an unorganized mess, filled with writers that don't know how to write. Mohr's writing style is a perfect example--he jumps back and forth between stories, episodes, events with such repetition that it's shocking there wasn't a decent editor who told him to rewrite the......more

Goodreads review by Lukas on May 18, 2012

Love him or hate him, the book is interesting and well written.......more

Goodreads review by Blue on November 29, 2020

Throughout the book Gasping for Airtime, author Jay Mohr projects a self-pitying aura. Over the course of his two-year tenure at SNL, he can't seem to get on air enough to be recognized in public, which bothers him a lot. Generally he seems to consider himself a tragically overlooked comedy genius. H......more

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