I was a huge fan of hers, of course, it was a tribute." The book notes that Child treasured her tape of the skit and would occasionally play it for friends at parties. "It came from a place of total respect for Julia Child. " had no idea it would become a classic," Aykroyd later noted in The French Chef in America. Read More: Original 'Saturday Night Live' Cast: Where Are They Now? I was so admiring of that performance." (Franken is complimenting himself as well, as it was him who was hidden under the chef's table manually pumping the blood out of the tube on Aykroyd's arm.) ![]() I mean, it's live TV and just the timing of the spurts, it's beautiful. "It's really a consummate Danny performance. "I had to convince Aykroyd to do it," Franken noted in Live From New York. "For some reason they asked me to read the part," he told Prud'Homme, while noting that his costume made him look "like a busty version of my mother." When they couldn't get the blood-spurting hose working right, they pushed the sketch back another week and turned to Aykroyd.ĭespite the fact that he was a big fan of Child, and that his aunt Helen Gougeon was a noted chef who wrote cookbooks and hosted cooking radio shows in Canada, Aykroyd didn't fully understand why he was chosen for the role over female castmates such as Gilda Radner, Jane Curtain and Laraine Newman. When Saturday Night Live writer Tom Davis got word of the story, he and coworker Al Franken quickly wrote "The French Chef," hoping to get Walter Matthau to portray Child when he hosted SNL's December 2nd episode. News of the on-set accident quickly made the rounds, with Johnny Carson asking Child about it a week later on The Tonight Show. However, as recounted in Alex Prud'Homme's book The French Chef in America, Snyder couldn't help himself from blurting out, "Julia, do you mind if I tell people you just cut your finger?" in the middle of the segment as the camera operator zoomed in on her hand. ![]() She quickly dressed the wound and not only insisted on going on with the appearance, but asked that the host not mention the accident, so as to keep the audience's focus on the meal she was preparing. A few weeks earlier, Child had accidentally cut the tip of her finger off minutes before appearing live on the The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder. ![]() The sketch was inspired by a real-life incident. "It was terribly funny, that bleeding to death and saying 'save the liver.' They sent us a cassette of that, so we have it, it's very funny. "We came home late one night, and just turned on by the TV and just happened to run into that show," Child later told Gino TV. The good news is, the real-life Child wasn't offended in the slightest.
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