From SNL To SpongeBob, Laraine Newman Chronicles 'Interesting Times'
Newman was a founding member of the improv group The Groundlings and an original Saturday Night Live cast member. She's voiced dozens of animated characters and has just published a new audio memoir.
When Tracy Newman was younger, she remembers walking past the door to her little sister's room: Laraine was "a little bit of a loner," Tracy recalls. Her "fantasy life was very active. ... I'd walk by her door and hear voices like she was talking to somebody, but it was always just her doing voices. ... It always made me laugh."
Laraine Newman went on to make many more people laugh as one of Saturday Night Live's original cast members. She chronicles her comedy career in her new audiobook, May You Live in Interesting Times.
Newman wasn't necessarily happy living in New York, working on a show where everyone competed fiercely for airtime. She
