4 Classic Gilda Radner ‘Saturday Night Live’ Sketches Every Fan Should Watch

Comedian Gilda Radner was one of the original “Not Ready for Prime Time Players” on NBC’s Saturday Night Live when it launched in 1975, along with Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman, and Garrett Morris. Her parodies of advice specialists (“Rosanne Rosannadanna”) and news anchors (“Baba Wawa”) made her one of the show’s most popular cast members of all time and an inspiration to many female comedians for years to come.

Gilda left the show in 1980 when her contract expired and tried her hand at movies, where she eventually met her second husband, Gene Wilder, on the set of 1982’s Hanky Panky. The pair married in 1984, though their marriage was short-lived as Radner was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1986 and passed away in 1989 after a prolonged battle with the disease.