Downey Wrote That | movie | 2025 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

The hourlong documentary explores the sketches, contributions and influence of Jim Downey, SNL's longest-running writer  | dG1fVk1nRlRTM29oTXc

Transcript

00:01Governor Bush, strategery.

00:10Something I'm not gonna do, not gonna do it.

00:19Okay, and you are...

00:23Jim Downey's the best writer that I ever worked with.

00:26There's nobody else like this.

00:28And what is your occupation?

00:30I am a barfly.

00:31I'm a barfly.

00:32I am a barfly.

00:34This is my first office that I shared with Bill Murray.

00:38Jim Downey and I, we went to work the same week.

00:41He became the voice of the show.

00:43If something important had to be said, I'd go to Jim on it.

00:46On the paper, it was not going to do it.

00:49And that became...

00:54Norm and Jim were making a lot of jokes about O.J.

00:57They just were like, oh, you want us to lay out the O.J. jokes?

01:00Well, why don't we do more?

01:02I had been fired twice.

01:04I remembered my friends telling me,

01:06if you go back to the show,

01:07we'll lose all respect for you.

01:11Jim invented a type of American comedy of hyper-nuance.

01:16We give the customer the change that he or she needs.

01:19If you come to us with a $20 bill, we can give you two tens.

01:22We can give you four or five.

01:24We can give you a ten and two five.

01:27Jim may be the funniest human I know.

01:30He would give you confidence.

01:33Most of what makes us laugh is something that's true.

01:36Just you've never heard it put that way before.

01:40Live from New York, it's Saturday night.

01:42It's Saturday night.