Editing Gilda Radner (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Cedars-Sinai West.jpg|alt=|thumb|Cedars-Sinai Medical Center hosts the Gilda Radner Ovarian Cancer Detection Center.]]

=== Legacy in comedy ===
In ''[[Rolling Stone]]''{{'}}s February 2015 appraisal of all 141 ''SNL'' cast members to date, Radner was ranked ninth in importance. "[Radner was] the most beloved of the original cast," they wrote. "In the years between Mary Tyler Moore and ''Seinfeld's'' Elaine, Radner was the prototype for the brainy city girl with a bundle of neuroses."<ref>{{cite news |date=February 26, 2015 |title=''SNL'' cast members |magazine=Rolling Stone |page=32 |issue=1229}}</ref>

Radner has been cited as an influence by many writers and comedians such as [[Lena Dunham]], [[Melissa McCarthy]], [[Amy Poehler]], and [[Maya Rudolph]]. At the premiere for the documentary film ''[[Love, Gilda]]'', [[Tina Fey]] said "She was our equivalent to [[Michelle Obama]]. She was so lovely and she was so authentically herself and so regular in so many ways … We all saw that and said: 'I wanna do that.'"<ref>{{Cite news |last=Freeman |first=Hadley |date=May 7, 2019 |title='She was our Michelle Obama': how Gilda Radner changed comedy for ever |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/may/07/she-was-our-michelle-obama-how-gilda-radner-changed-comedy-for-ever |access-date=January 25, 2025 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

=== Legacy in cancer awareness and treatment ===
Radner's death helped raise awareness of the early detection of ovarian cancer and the connection to familial epidemiology.<ref>Squires, Sally. "Fighting Ovarian Cancer: Doctors Don't Know Who Is At Risk and Why", ''The Washington Post'', May 30, 1989.</ref> The media attention in the two years after Radner's death led to registry of 450 families with familial ovarian cancer at the Familial Ovarian Cancer Registry, a research database registry at [[Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center]] in [[Buffalo, New York]]. The registry was renamed the Gilda Radner Familial Ovarian Cancer Registry (GRFOCR) in 1990 and renamed the Familial Ovarian Cancer Registry in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|title=About The Familial Ovarian Cancer Registry|url=https://www.roswellpark.org/ovarian-cancer-registry/about-registry<!--&#124;url-status=live-->|access-date=May 17, 2021 |publisher=[[Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center]]}}</ref> In 1996, Wilder and Registry founder Steven Piver, one of Radner's medical consultants, published ''Gilda's Disease: Sharing Personal Experiences and a Medical Perspective on Ovarian Cancer''.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Piver |first1=M. Steven |last2=Wilder |first2=Gene |date=1996 |title=Gilda's Disease: Sharing Personal Experiences and a Medical Perspective on Ovarian Cancer |location=Amherst, NY |publisher=Prometheus Books |isbn=9781573920896 |oclc=34753362}}</ref>

Wilder established the Gilda Radner Hereditary Cancer Program at [[Cedars-Sinai Medical Center|Cedars-Sinai]] to screen high-risk candidates (such as women of [[Ashkenazi Jews|Ashkenazi Jewish descent]]) and to run basic diagnostic tests. He testified before a Congressional committee that Radner's condition had been misdiagnosed and that if doctors had inquired more deeply into her family background they would have learned that her grandmother, aunt, and a cousin had all died of ovarian cancer, and therefore they might have attacked the disease earlier.<ref>Wilder, Gene. "Why Did Gilda Die?" ''People'' magazine, June 3, 1991.</ref>
[[File:Gilda's Club New York City.jpg|alt=Picture of Gilda's Club location in New York City|thumb|Gilda's Club location in New York City]]
In 1991, [[Gilda's Club]], a network of affiliated clubhouses where people living with cancer, their friends, and families, can meet to learn how to live with cancer, was founded by Joanna Bull, Radner's cancer [[Psychotherapy|psychotherapist]], along with Radner's widower, [[Gene Wilder]] (also a cancer survivor) and broadcaster [[Joel Siegel]] (who would die in 2007 following a long battle with colon cancer). The first club opened in New York City in 1995. The organization took its name from Radner's comment that cancer gave her "membership to an elite club I'd rather not belong to".<ref>{{cite web|title=Gilda's Club Twin Cities: Who We Are |publisher=Gilda's Club Twin Cities |url=http://www.gildasclubtwincities.org/whoweare/faqs|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150320050552/http://www.gildasclubtwincities.org/whoweare/faqs|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 20, 2015|access-date=November 28, 2012}}</ref>

Many Gilda's Clubs have opened across the United States and in Canada. In July 2009, Gilda's Club Worldwide merged with [[The Wellness Community]], another established cancer support organization, to become the Cancer Support Community (CSC).<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://journals.lww.com/oncology-times/Fulltext/2009/04100/Wellness_Community___Gilda_s_Club_May_Merge.5.aspx|title=Wellness Community & Gilda's Club May Merge |journal=Oncology Times |date=2009 |volume=31 |issue=7 |pages=8–10|doi=10.1097/01.COT.0000350347.90229.05 |access-date=November 28, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex/susanmcclure/2009/12/14/Gildas-Club-and-The-Wellness-Community-Join-Forces|title=Gilda's Club and The Wellness Community Join Forces|first=Susan|last=McClure|date=December 14, 2009|access-date=November 28, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121207185410/http://www.thenonprofittimes.com/article/detail/merging-to-increase-mission-impact-3966|archive-date=December 7, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenonprofittimes.com/article/detail/merging-to-increase-mission-impact-3966 |title=Merging to Increase Mission Impact |work=The NonProfit Times |access-date=November 28, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121207185410/http://www.thenonprofittimes.com/article/detail/merging-to-increase-mission-impact-3966 |archive-date=December 7, 2012}}</ref> As of 2012, more than 20 local affiliates of Gilda's Club were active. Although some local affiliates of Gilda's Club and The Wellness Community have retained their names, many affiliates have adopted the name Cancer Support Community following the merger.<ref name=":0" />

=== Other tributes ===
In 1997, ''Bunny , Bunny: Gilda Radner: A Sort of Romantic Comedy'', [[Alan Zweibel]]'s play about his friendship with Radner (based on his memoir with the same name) ran for 73 performances at New York's [[off-Broadway]] [[Lucille Lortel Theatre]]. [[Paula Cale]] played Gilda, [[Bruno Kirby]] played Zwiebel, and all the other roles (more than twenty) were played by [[Alan Tudyk]] in his New York stage debut (a feat for which he won the [[Clarence Derwent Award]]).[http://www.iobdb.com/production/385]<ref name="avclub">{{cite web|url=https://www.avclub.com/alan-tudyk-on-never-playing-the-same-role-twice-except-1798270141|title=Alan Tudyk on never playing the same role twice—except that one time|first=Sonia|last=Saraiya|work=[[The A.V. Club]]|date=July 7, 2014|access-date=July 7, 2014|archive-date=September 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210917111558/https://www.avclub.com/alan-tudyk-on-never-playing-the-same-role-twice-except-1798270141|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2002, [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] dedicated a three-hour block of programming to Radner. The evening kicked off with a one-hour special, ''Gilda Radner's Greatest Moments''. Hosted by ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' alumnus [[Molly Shannon]], the special featured highlights from her career and appearances by friends and co-stars [[Victor Garber]], [[Kermit the Frog]], [[Eugene Levy]], [[Steve Martin]], [[Paul Shaffer]], [[Lily Tomlin]], and [[Barbara Walters]]. It was followed by a television movie about her life: ''Gilda Radner: It's Always Something'', starring [[Jami Gertz]] as Radner.

In 2007, Radner was featured in ''Making Trouble'', a film tribute to female Jewish comedians produced by the [[Jewish Women's Archive]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Deming|first=Mark|title=Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/400302/Making-Trouble-Three-Generations-of-Funny-Jewish-Women/overview|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120826033126/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/400302/Making-Trouble-Three-Generations-of-Funny-Jewish-Women/overview|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 26, 2012|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=2012|access-date=April 14, 2012}}</ref>

In 2015, for the [[Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special|''Saturday Night Live'' 40th Anniversary Special]], Radner was honored with other deceased cast and crew members over the show's history.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gerard |first=Jeremy |date=February 16, 2015 |title='SNL 40': Bill Murray Claims Top Honors For Mixed-Bag Walk Down Memory Lane – Review |url=https://deadline.com/2015/02/snl-40-bill-murray-paul-simon-kanye-west-1201374409/ |access-date=January 26, 2025 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}</ref> Additionally, during the ''[[Weekend Update]]'' segment, [[Emma Stone]] played Roseanne Roseannadanna as a tribute to Radner.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Derschowitz |first=Jessica |date=February 16, 2015 |title="Saturday Night Live": 10 top moments from the 40th anniversary special - CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/saturday-night-live-10-top-moments-from-the-40th-anniversary-special/ |access-date=January 26, 2025 |website=www.cbsnews.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

Actress [[Ella Hunt]] portrays Radner in the 2024 film ''[[Saturday Night (2024 film)|Saturday Night]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kroll|first=Justin|date=January 26, 2024|title='SNL 1975' Movie Finds Its Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin & Laraine Newman|url=https://deadline.com/2024/01/snl-1975-jane-curtain-laraine-newman-gilda-radner-1235805534/|work=Deadline|location= |access-date=January 30, 2024}}</ref>