TV writer Anne Beatts, who penned classic ‘Saturday Night Live’ sketches, dies at 74

TV writer Anne Beatts, who penned classic ‘Saturday Night Live’ sketches, dies at 74.
Anne Beatts, who got her start at National Lampoon and then joined the writing staff of the then-new comedy TV series “Saturday Night Live,” died on April 7.
She was 74.
Beatts, who taught at the Chapman University Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, was responsible for some of the most memorable characters on the early days of “Saturday Night Live.”

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Among the recurring roles she helped create, often with co-writer Rosie Shuster, were Todd DiLaMuca and Lisa Lupner, the nerd couple played by Bill Murray and Gilda Radner, Fred Garvin: Male Prostitute, played by Dan Akroyd, and the Larraine Newman sketch Child Psychiatrist.
“I knew people.
I was in the right place at the right time,” Beatts said in a 2013 interview with the Orange County Register.
“I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels (of ‘Saturday Night Live’) came looking for women comedy writers there weren’t too many in New York at the time.