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The Night &#;Julia Child&#; Bled to Death on &#;Saturday Night Live&#;
Imagine coming home from a lovely dinner date with your spouse, turning on the TV and watching a parody version of yourself bleed to death as the Saturday Night Live audience roars with laughter.
That's exactly what happened to Julia Child on Dec. 9, , as Dan Aykroyd lovingly parodied the celebrity chef in the instantly famous "The French Chef" sketch.
The skräp features Aykroyd's Child hosting a typical cooking segment before accidentally "cutting the dickens" out of her finger, releasing staggeringly large spurts of blood all over the set. Ever the professional, she tries to educate her audience on various ineffective DIY first aid solutions, constantly insisting that they save the chicken liver for future snacking. After finally realizing the gravity of her situation and attempting to call for help on what turns out to be a prop telephone, the chef begins hallucinating
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Alex Prud&#;homme
In , Julia Child&#;s memoir My Life in France was a rousing bestseller. The story of how a &#;6-footinch, year-old, rather loud and unserious Californian&#; (her words) transformed herself and America&#;s appetites was a sheer delight. But it nearly didn&#;t happen. For years she had talked about writing a memoir of her postwar years in Paris, and her grandnephew, journalist Alex Prud&#;homme, kept gently nudging her. Finally, in , she confessed to him that she had not begun to write, and said, &#;All right, dearie, maybe we should work on it together.&#;
They worked on the book for eight months until Julia Child died in August ; Prud&#;homme spent the next year weaving interviews and an extensive archive of family letters into a memoir written in her voice. His aim was to make the reader feel &#;that we were sitting around a little café-table, having a glass of wine or a cup of coffee, and Julia was there telling you a story.&#; In The French ledare
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Dan Aykroyd as Julia Child on SNL: Stop the Bleeding!
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by Best Classic Bands StaffDan Aykroyd as Julia Child in Season 4 of SNL
From on Saturday Night Live, the cast and veteran writers were knocking it out of the park during Season Four. And though many members of the great ensemble cast of players collaborated on most sketches, every once in a while, one of them would have a memorable turn in a solo skit.
Such was the case on the season&#;s eighth episode on December 9,
In a sketch called &#;The French Chef,&#; Dan Akyroyd introduces himself to the audience right away. &#;Welcome,&#; he says, &#;I&#;m Julia Child.&#; The legendary teacher, author and TV host, born Aug. 15, , had starred in a groundbreaking cooking show of that name for a decade. She is also the subject of an acclaimed comedy-drama series, Julia, that ran for two seasons on HBO&#;s Max platform beginning in
Aykroyd, mimicking Child&#;s over-the-top high-pitched voi