Americans, thoroughly lampooned and authority figures from Dean Wormer
on down thoroughly humiliated. Ghostbusters, which he co-wrote and
starred in, wasn’t just funny; it was a great satire of urban politics,
of horror films, and of message movies; it also stands as an early
indicator of how nerds would go on to dominate American culture. 1993’s

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meta-analysis than Saturday Night Live has ever managed. What made the
show — and the characters he played, especially the addled and corrupt
station manager Moe Green — great was that it lovingly satirized the
television that Baby Boomers had grown up with. It managed to mock and
honor icons of an earlier time while exploring how modern media created