. >> where did emily latella come from?io. can i say hello? oh, i'm sorry. she's mrs. gilly, who raised me and she's emily latella. she has all those difficulties that emily has. >> this bus i keep hearing about the 1976 presidential erection? >> emily is very hard of hearing and she's always getting things wrong. >> sorry, that's election. the editorial was about the presidential election not presidential erection. election. >> well, that's very different. >> yes. >> never mind. >> the crowd just adored her. how many people play an old lady, you know, on a show and they can be thought of as young and sexy and vibrant? gilda went for it. >> and i promise from now on i will do my best. >> see that you do. >> bitch. >> first one to ever say bitch on television and the sensors let me do it because they said well it was a nice, sweet, old lady saying it. >> i only made those people for television and i put outfits on them for television but they've always been inside me. after i'm done being interviewed all day i go right into

>> well, emily latella, gilda was raised by a nanny named debby that spoke that way, and she was hardg. as far as rosanne happened, that was pure happenstance. a writer had written a public service announcement where it was called hire the incompetent, okay? and there were free vignettes of people totally incompetent. she was talking about getting fired from burger king because they found a hair in a hamburger, okay? we were having dinner a few weeks later and i was running the weekend update segment of the show at that point. i said remember that character you did a few weeks ago? why don't we move her into weekend update and make her a -- make her do social commentary or a consumer advocate. not on unlike a local newscaster. and gilda said, okay, can we call her rosanne, rosanna danna? if you put roseanne in that name game song, it comes out like that. >> so these are obviously all the great moments. the film documents the battle with cancer with was difficult for all of you who were close to her. what is it like to see the documentary and see all of that play out again? >> you know

. ♪ >> radner became a star, emily latella. >> what's all this fuss i keep hearing. >> soon to be ther of her own one woman show on broadway. these days she's making movies. >> here she is live, miss gilda radner. >> gilda radner. ♪ ♪ i am a baby born ♪ i can dance my eyes >> it's the story of my life, you know. people say, okay, you're a star now, gilda radner, what's it like to be a star? >> this is side one. if i should talk like this, can you understand? when i think back on my life, i always felt that my comedy was just to make things be all right. i loved the naivete that the soul can believe what it wants to believe. i could be prettier than i was. i could be people that i really wasn't. i would use comedy to be in control of my situation. ♪ >> i can't believe this is her handwriting. are these actually her papers? like what she -- there's checkmarks. ooh. it's like we're detectives. >> this is a real honor. like seriously, this is huge. >> gilda smoking, gilda radner. >> shopping in supermarkets, staring. restaurants. >> elevators. male. aerobics. >> number 12 toilet, really l

>> oh, i don't know, emily latella. i like all her characters.. >> one-woman show, "gilda live." >> incredible. >> and the character was arne schnecman. this documentary was so nostalg nostalgic. for that show, she and i wrote a lot of songs together and get to see and hear all these songs. >> "let's talk dirty to the animals. ". >> we didn't write that one. every other one. "honey touch me with my clothes on." >> i remember gilda radnor doing a commercial for "saturday night live" for hey, you, the perfume after a one-night stand. >> yes. >> it was her hailing a cab after a one-night stand. it was like, hey, you. >> i know. she was doing the walk of shame. >> she was doing the walk of shame. >> it was amazing. >> this place is amazing, though. the depth -- you know, this is, like, three football fields tied together with mariah carey's spanx. that gives an idea of the -- >> mariah does not wear spanx. >> by the way -- >> of course, she does. >> is it true you wrote the song, "it's raining men"? >> i wrote it's "raining men," not like this kind o