Emily Prager

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Emily Prager
Born (1948-04-21) April 21, 1948 (age 74)
Tucson, Arizona, U.S.
OccupationAuthor, journalist, teacher; former actress
Alma mater Brearley School, Barnard College

Emily Prager is an American author and journalist. Prager grew up in Texas, Taiwan, and Greenwich Village, New York City. She is a graduate of the Brearley School, Barnard College and has a master's degree in Applied Linguistics. [1] She has written for The Daily Telegraph , The New York Times , Penthouse , The Guardian , and Village Voice .

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Prager starred in the daily TV soap opera The Edge of Night from 1968 to 1972. She was later a contributing editor of The National Lampoon, a performer on The National Lampoon Radio Hour and worked and appeared in the High School Yearbook Parody. Her also work appeared in Titters, A Book of Humor by Women. She was a writer for, and briefly a cast member of Saturday Night Live in 1981. [2] Although she did not appear in the single episode for which she was credited as a featured player (the last episode of the 1980-1981 season, with Jr. Walker and the All-Stars as musical guests, but there was no definitive host, even though some sources claim that Chevy Chase hosted this episode), she appeared uncredited in five episodes, between 1977 and 1981. [3] Prager is one in a handful of microscopically short-lived cast members, joining Laurie Metcalf (who did appear on the episode Prager didn't, but only on Weekend Update), SCTV cast member Catherine O'Hara (who quit after being hired on SNL and didn't appear in the season six finale), and Shane Gillis (who was fired two weeks before he could appear in the season 45 premiere when evidence of him using racist, sexist, homophobic, and anti-Asian language was uncovered).

She was a writer-performer in the cult film Mr. Mike's Mondo Video and Robert Longo's Arena Brains. Her works include a compendium of her humor writing, In the Missionary Position, the acclaimed short story collection A Visit From the Footbinder and Other Stories, the novels Eve's Tattoo, Clea and Zeus Divorce, and Roger Fishbite , and a memoir, Wuhu Diary. She has been a columnist for the Village Voice , [4] The New York Times , The Daily Telegraph , Penthouse , and The Guardian . [5] She is a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library and in the year 2000, she received the first online journalism award for commentary given by Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She taught at the Shanghai American School (Pudong Campus) in Shanghai, China. Dana Elcar was her stepfather.

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References

  1. A Visit From the Footbinder, Simon & Schuster, 1982.<-- ISSN/ISBN needed, if any -->
  2. Gus Wezerek (2019-12-14). "The 'S.N.L.' Stars Who Lasted, and the Ones Who Flamed Out". The New York Times . Archived from the original on 2019-12-14. Retrieved 2019-12-16. Some of the names here will be familiar only to die-hard fans; others, like Murphy, defined what was funny for generations of viewers.
  3. Specifically, 21 May 1977 Archived 2 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine , 19 Nov 1977 Archived 2 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine , 10 Dec 1977 Archived 2 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine , 22 Apr 1978 Archived 2 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine , and 10 Oct 1981 Archived 2 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine .
  4. author biography, Roger Fishbite, Vintage, 1999
  5. "Emily Prager". Random House.