Bill Murray and Gilda Radner’s nerds (Todd DiLaMuca and Lisa Loopner) were the real deal. They had the look and the voice and, most important, the personality. Murray explained what was so ...

The show’s writers often worked in pairs, and Ms. Beatts frequently wrote with Rosie Shuster, creating sketches like the “Nerds” series, which featured Lisa Loopner (Ms. Radner) and Todd ...

UPDATE, with reactions Anne Beatts, an original Saturday Night Live writer who created some of the show’s earliest breakthrough characters, among them the nerdy high schoolers Todd DiLaMuca and ...

Gilda Radner was one of the break-out members of the original Saturday Night Live cast, with characters like Emily Litella, Baba Wawa and “Nerd” Lisa Loopner making her such an instant star ...

Perusing the list of this year’s Emmy comedy nominees, it’s hard not to feel like Lisa Loopner, the “Saturday Night Live” nerd played by Gilda Radner: “That’s so funny I forgot to ...

UPDATE, with reactions Anne Beatts, an original Saturday Night Live writer who created some of the show’s earliest breakthrough characters, among them the nerdy high schoolers Todd DiLaMuca and ...

Gilda Radner, playing Lisa Loopner, called him Taaaaahd. Then there was also Keanu Reeves's dudish Tod in "Parenthood." His girlfriend's mother (Dianne Wiest) always called him "That Tod." ...

The Castro’s majestic screen flickered Thursday night with passing images of rock star Candy Slice, variety show host — in her own bedroom — Judy Miller, cockeyed advice specialist Roseanne ...