When Radner wrote It's Always Something, this is the only reference she made to Murray in the entire book: " All the guys the National Lampoon group of writers and performers liked to have me around because I would laugh at them till I peed in my pants and tears rolled out of my eyes.

Wilder established the Gilda Radner Ovarian Detection Center at Cedars-Sinai to screen high-risk candidates ( such as women of Ashkenazi Jewish descent ) and run basic diagnostic tests.

* Uncle Roy, a single, pedophilic babysitter who disguises his attempts at molesting the children he's watching ( played by Gilda Radner and Laraine Newman ) as games.

In 2009, she starred in the play Bunny Bunny: Gilda Radner, a Sort of Romantic Comedy at Avenue Theater in Denver.

* Gilda Radner was weather girl at WCBN from 1965 to 1966.

Radner was born in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Jewish parents Henrietta ( née Dworkin ), a legal secretary, and Herman Radner, a businessman.

In 1992, Radner was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame for her achievements in arts and entertainment.

Ironically, Gilda Radner who was an original castmember on the show was born in Detroit, Michigan.

In Ann Arbor, Radner began her broadcasting career as the weather girl for college radio station WCBN, but dropped out in her senior year to follow her then-boyfriend, a Canadian sculptor named Jeffrey Rubinoff, to Toronto, Canada.

Radner was close to her father, who operated Detroit's Seville Hotel, where many nightclub performers and actors stayed while performing in the city.

Gilda Susan Radner ( June 28, 1946 – May 20, 1989 ) was an American comedian and actress, best known as one of the original cast members of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, for which she won an Emmy Award in 1978.

As Radner wrote in It's Always Something, when she was twelve her father developed a brain tumor, and the symptoms began so suddenly that he told people his eyeglasses were too tight.

In 1979, incoming NBC President Fred Silverman offered Radner her own prime time variety show, which she ultimately turned down.

After Radner was told she had gone into remission, she wrote It's Always Something ( a catchphrase of her character Roseanne Roseannadanna ), which included many details of her struggle with the illness.

In late 1988, after biopsies and a saline wash of her abdomen showed no signs of cancer, Radner was put on a maintenance chemotherapy treatment to prolong her remission, but later that same year, she learned that her cancer had returned after a routine blood test showed her levels of the tumor marker CA-125 had increased.

Saturday Night Live personnel, including Lorne Michaels, Mike Myers ( who had, in his own words, " fallen in love " with Radner after playing her son in a BC Hydro commercial on Canadian television and considered her the reason he wanted to be on SNL ) and Phil Hartman, had not known she was so close to death.

When Shandling asked her why she had not been seen on television for a while, Radner replied, " Oh, I had cancer.

In 1972, she played the character of Robin in a Toronto production of Godspell, with a cast that included future comedy stars Gilda Radner, Martin Short, Eugene Levy, singer and actor Victor Garber, and musical director Paul Shaffer.

Also In 2002, she portrayed comedian Gilda Radner in the television movie Gilda Radner: It's Always Something.

Radner, meanwhile, was resented by many because she and Michaels had spent much of the year working on a Broadway play, and album, Gilda Live.

Gilda Radner had been penciled in to host the season finale that spring, but by 1989 her cancer had returned and she died within the year.

Another Radner take on the stereotype was a fake ad for " Jewess Jeans " which showed Radner and other women wearing designer jeans with light-up Stars of David and an offstage woman singing " she is an American princess!

While Gilda Radner was struggling with cancer, she wrote the following about the film: " On July 26, Haunted Honeymoon opened nationwide.

In a nasty memo to fellow SNL colleagues, Belushi said that he was unhappy that Shaffer was spending so much time on a studio record for Radner.

He also appeared with fellow Brooks regulars Gene Wilder ( who directed the film as well ), Marty Feldman, and Madeline Kahn in The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes ' Smarter Brother, as well as alongside Wilder and Gilda Radner in a later Gene Wilder-directed film, Haunted Honeymoon.

The film also features cameos from Idle's fellow Python Michael Palin, several SNL cast members including Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Bill Murray, and Dan Aykroyd ( as well as SNL writers Al Franken and Tom Davis ), Bianca Jagger as Dirk McQuickly's wife Martini, Ronnie Wood as a Hells Angel, and Mick Jagger, Paul Simon and Roger McGough as themselves.

Radner joined Saltman and his girlfriend on a trip to Paris in the summer of 1966.

Saltman wrote that he was so affectionate with his girlfriend that they left Radner to fend for herself during much of their sightseeing.

Alan Zweibel, who co-created the Roseanne Roseannadanna character and co-wrote all of Roseanne's dialogue, recalled that Radner, one of three original SNL cast members who stayed away from cocaine, chastised him for using it.

Radner had mixed emotions about the fans and strangers who recognized her in public.

The center was named for a quip from Radner, who said, " Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to.

The play told the career of actress Gilda Radner, who Roswell played, from 1975 ( the start of Saturday Night Live ) to her death in 1989.

The organization was named for Wilder's wife, Gilda Radner, who died of ovarian cancer.

The latter starred a group of young Canadian unknowns who would go on to great success, including Victor Garber, Gilda Radner, Martin Short, Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin.

The third simply introduced each cast member as they walked out of the subway ( with the exception of Aykroyd and Radner who, curiously, were introduced using their Times Square shots from earlier in the season ).

" Roseanne Roseannadanna " was one of several recurring characters created by Gilda Radner who appeared in the " Weekend Update " segments of the early seasons of the NBC comedy television show, Saturday Night Live.

Larry Abbot ( Wilder ) and Vickie Pearle ( Radner ) are radio stars in the Manhattan Mystery Theater who decide to get married.

Gilda's Club, named in tribute to the late comic actress Gilda Radner, who died of ovarian cancer in 1989, is a community meeting place for people living with cancer, their families and friends.

Radner wrote in her autobiography It's Always Something toward the end of her life, " I coped with stress by having every possible eating disorder from the time I was nine years old.

Radner won an Emmy Award in 1978 for her work on SNL.

Radner battled bulimia during her time on the show.

In 1979, shortly before Radner began her final season on Saturday Night Live, her Broadway show was filmed by Mike Nichols under the title Gilda Live !, co-starring Paul Shaffer and Don Novello, and was released to theaters nationwide in 1980 with poor results.

After experiencing severe fatigue and suffering from pain in her upper legs on the set of Haunted Honeymoon in the United Kingdom in 1985, Radner sought medical treatment.

In 2002, the ABC television network aired a television movie about her life: Gilda Radner: It's Always Something, starring Jami Gertz as Radner.