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Classic Saturday Night Live : "Robert Klein/Bonnie Raitt"

 

Published 1/9/2009 at The A.V. Club - TV Club

Though he isn't held in the same high regard as some of his contemporaries, especially those with the great fortune to die young and lead wildly self-destructive lives, Robert Klein was a hugely popular figure in the seventies, a comedian's comedian with a professorial air and an appealingly avuncular presence. Klein had more in common with the intellectual likes of Mort Sahl, Woody Allen and Nichols & May than the raucous, high-energy stoners of Saturday Night Live , which helps explain why he only hosted twice. In Richard Zoglin's Comedy At The Edge: How Stand-Up in the 1970s Changed ... (link)

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