(Like many of the early SNL writers, Beatts served as a writer on Radner’s 1980 one-man show Gilda Live.) Beatts wrote for SNL for the entirety of the original Lorne Michaels tenure on the series, creating characters like Todd and Lisa Lupner (a.k.a. The Nerds), Buck Henry’s deeply unsettling “Uncle Roy,†and Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute.