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Rosie Shuster
Canadian-born comedy writer
b. 1950age 76Living
A comedy writer who shaped Saturday Night Live's earliest and most durable characters, working with Gilda Radner and Anne Beatts to create Roseanne Roseannadanna, Emily Litella and Baba Wawa, and later helping Dana Carvey develop the Church Lady. Toronto-raised and the daughter of comedy duo Wayne and Shuster's Frank Shuster, she wrote for SNL through the 1970s and 80s and later for The Larry Sanders Show, winning two Emmy Awards.