Gilda Radner is recorded during a live comedy concert. Radner's classic characters are seen in sketches that are sometimes more risque than when they appeared on television. During her breaks, the character Father Guido Sarducci takes the stage.
Acting
Radner's physical comedy is Olympic-level, no notes.
Direction
Mike Nichols captures live electricity without killing it.
Score
Paul Shaffer's Candy Slice Group is unhinged perfection.
Director
Mike Nichols
Gilda Radner
Self / Various Characters
Don Novello
Father Guido Sarducci
Diana Grasselli
Rouge
Myriam Valle
Rouge
Maria Vidal
Rouge
Paul Shaffer
Don Kirshner / Arnie Schnachtman / Student Body President / The Candy Slice Group
Bob Christianson
Audition Scene Pianist
Johnny Caruso
The Candy Slice Group
Howard Shore
The Candy Slice Group
G.E. Smith
The Candy Slice Group
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was filmed at the Winter Garden Theatre, the same Broadway house where Radner's husband Gene Wilder would later perform. Radner and Wilder met just months after this concert.
Father Guido Sarducci's five-minute university degree bit became an actual underground reference point for 1980s college students mocking credential inflation.
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