night live" definitely early on, amazing that right out of the gate, it was loraine newman and jane curtinw, candy. candy? >> they could definitely hang with the guys, they were just as important and they were hilarious. >> hey, stud muffins, want to make bouncy, bouncy? >> they had three female performers, and three female writers. which if you look at the comedy landscape at that ti, is unheard of. >> what made "saturday night live" different from those other shows was our show was the first one to really have a voice for a younger generation. >> then the man -- >> eww! >> eww! >> yuck. >> that's disgusting. >> and then you scream, and then he screams, and then it's over. >> the early days of "snl" were a tale of two worlds. because you had these great female writers like ann beatts and marilyn miller and rosie sh shuster, but then you had -- john belushi didn't want to do sketches written by women. >> i like sirloin steak, i like american food. don't push me, i mean it! >> john used to regularly ask for the women to be fired on the show, because chicks just weren't funny. >> awful! awfu