Talk:A Limo for a Lame-O

A fact from A Limo for a Lame-O appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 May 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that "A Limo For A Lame-O", Al Franken's Weekend Update attack on Fred Silverman 35 years ago today, set in motion the events that led to Saturday Night Live's "worst" season?

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I don't understand the relevance of most of the following paragraph:

Michaels' reservations about Doumanian's ability to work with the core team were rooted in fact. Doumanian had a longtime friendship with Woody Allen, whose movies she would later produce, and they spoke on the telephone almost every day, often more than once. He would sometimes call her in the Studio 8H using the pseudonym "Mo Golden", which eventually fooled no one, and production assistants answering the phone would call to her across the room that Allen was on the phone for her, until she told them to stop. Her friendship with Allen, however, never resulted in him appearing on the show as he did not do television at that point in his career.

What did Jean Doumanian being a friend of Woody Allen have to do with her ability to work with the core SNL team? --Metropolitan90 (talk) 03:59, 9 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

@Metropolitan90: I took it out. I probably got too deep into the research doing the article in the first place.

I think the implied complaint there was that she took too much advice from Woody, and that she shouldn't have been talking to him from the studio like that. But no one's ever stated that explicitly for the record. Daniel Case (talk) 06:27, 9 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

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