Gene Wilder Acted Like Gilda Radner’s ‘Dad’: ‘SNL’ Co

The women of the original cast of Saturday Night Live—Jane Curtin, Larraine Newman, and Gilda Radner—were very close, Curtin shared, which allowed her intimate insight into Radner’s relationship with husband Gene Wilder.

Curtin, 78, told host (and fellow SNL alum) Julia Louis-Dreyfus on a new episode of the Wiser Than Me podcast that before Radner met Wilder, she would come over to observe Curtin and her husband, TV producer and art director Patrick Lynch, who died earlier this year at 79.

“For Patrick and me, there were no games,” Curtin said, “and she was used to a different kind of treatment, and it wasn’t necessarily a good way of being treated. But she allowed herself to be treated that way because she wanted a relationship so desperately,” she added of Radner, who died of ovarian