Editing Gilda Radner (section)

===Recurrence, death, and ''SNL'' response===
In September 1988, after tests showed no signs of cancer, Radner went on a [[maintenance chemotherapy]] treatment to prolong her remission, but three months later, in December, she learned that the cancer had returned.<ref name="cr" />

On May 17, 1989, she was admitted to [[Cedars-Sinai Medical Center]] in Los Angeles to undergo a [[CT scan]]. She was given a sedative and lapsed into a coma during the scan.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |url= https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gilda-radner-club_b_2366303|title=Gilda Radner Remembered|last1=Karras|first1=Steven |date=January 6, 2013|website=HuffPost |language=en|access-date=November 22, 2019}}</ref> She did not regain consciousness and died three days later, on May 20, 1989; Wilder was at her side. The cause of death was [[ovarian cancer]].<ref name="obit">{{cite news|author=Hevesi, Dennis |url= https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DEFD81230F932A15756C0A96F948260 |title=Gilda Radner, 42, Comic Original Of 'Saturday Night Live' Zaniness|newspaper=The New York Times|date= May 21, 1989}}</ref>

News of Radner's death broke as [[Steve Martin]] was rehearsing for his guest-host role on that night's season finale of ''Saturday Night Live''. The show's performers and crew, including [[Lorne Michaels]], [[Phil Hartman]], and [[Mike Myers]] (who had, in his own words, "fallen in love" with Radner after playing her son in a [[BC Hydro]] commercial on Canadian television and considered her the reason he wanted to be on ''SNL''),<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.talktalk.co.uk/entertainment/film/biography/artist/mike-myers/biography/86?page=2|title=Mike Myers biography|website=Talktalk.co.uk|access-date=July 26, 2014}}</ref> had been unaware of the severity of Radner's condition. 

Martin abandoned his opening monologue, and he tearfully introduced a video clip of a 1978 sketch in which he and Radner had parodied [[Fred Astaire]] and [[Cyd Charisse]] in the well-known dance routine ''Dancing in the Dark'' from ''[[The Band Wagon]]'' (1953).<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Shales |first1=Tom |title=Live from New York : the complete, uncensored history of Saturday Night Live as told by its stars, writers, and guests |last2=Miller |first2=Andrew James |publisher=Back Bay Books |year=2015 |isbn=9780316295062 |edition=Revised |location=New York, NY |pages=349–350 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Ronald L. |title=Who's who in comedy: comedians, comics, and clowns from vaudeville to today's stand-ups |publisher=Facts on File |year=1992 |isbn=978-0-8160-2338-7 |location=New York |pages=388 |language=en}}</ref> After the clip, Martin said it reminded him of "how great she was, and of how young I looked. Gilda, we miss you."<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 8, 2018 |title=SNL Transcripts: Steve Martin: 05/20/89: Steve Martin's Monologue - SNL Transcripts Tonight |url=https://snltranscripts.jt.org/88/88tmono.phtml |access-date=February 10, 2025 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Finke |first=Nikki |date=1989-05-22 |title=Gilda's Final Gift: A Tale of Courage |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-05-22-vw-463-story.html |access-date=2025-02-25 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> [[G. E. Smith]], Radner's first husband, who was ''Saturday Night Live'''s bandleader, wore a [[black armband]] throughout the episode.

Radner was interred at Long Ridge Union Cemetery in [[Stamford, Connecticut]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fame and Fortune Laid to Rest - The New York Times > N.Y. / Region > Slide Show > Slide 4 of 15 |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/10/26/nyregion/1026cemetery_4.html |access-date=January 25, 2025 |website=archive.nytimes.com}}</ref>