More disturbingly, she recalls an unscrupulous manager setting her up with an 18-year-old Gary Coleman, who harasses her.Īfter a few years of trying to make it in L.A., she finally gets her big break, an audition with Lorne Michaels for “Saturday Night Live.” She’s passed over her first time, but a second audition lands her the gig. She recounts waiting tables for Jennifer Aniston and Julia Roberts while she awaits her big break and landing auditions in Hollywood by calling agents and pretending to be David Mamet’s assistant. Shannon peppers the memoir with inside-showbusiness anecdotes that make the memoir a hard-to-put down page turner. She later says many of her characters are partly based on her larger-than-life father. He encourages her adventurous performer side, but he can also be suffocating and fly off the handle into a rage at a moments’ notice. She remained close with her father, Jim, a charismatic but unstable man who is haunted by the accident. She also found comfort in a close bond with her sister, Mary, who also survived the accident. Though devastated by the loss of her mother at such a young age, Shannon found solace in performing in school plays and community shows while growing up in the Irish-Catholic community in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio.
“My whole life changed in an instant,” she writes. Her father, who survived, was driving after drinking earlier in the day. When she was just 4, her whole family was involved in a horrendous car accident that killed her mother, younger sister and cousin.
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NEW YORK - Molly Shannon made a name for herself as a standout performer on “Saturday Night Live,” star of the movie “Superstar,” featuring her “SNL” character Mary Katherine Gallagher, and playing an eager-to-please stage mom in the sitcom “The Other Two.”īut before the professional successes, Shannon had to overcome an enormous tragedy she details in her new memoir, “Hello, Molly!,” which she wrote with Sean Wilsey. She was hired as a repertory performer in September 1995 as part of an almost entirely new cast, which was brought in after the show's disastrous 1994-1995 season. Oteri performed a monologue during one of Kattan's costume changes, which led to Oteri herself being invited to audition for SNL along with Kattan and fellow Groundling Will Ferrell. In 1995, the producers of Saturday Night Live attended a performance with the intention of auditioning fellow Groundlings member Chris Kattan. She has Italian ancestry.Īfter moving to Los Angeles at age 28, Oteri worked at A&M Records for four years and eventually joined a comedy troupe called The Groundlings. Oteri was born Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Gaetano Thomas Oteri, who founded and was the CEO of a music publishing company, "Of Music".
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