Word: ebersol
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disorder, tossing barbs at the presidency, the system, the revolution(s), motherhood, feminism, civil rights and democracy. Only on the air for four months, this live and unpredictable show is the season's surprise hit. It already has a loyal following of more than seven million. Says Dick Ebersol, 28, the network's late-night programming vice president, who is responsible for the whole thing: "It's NBC's hottest show, the most attractive show to advertisers, in 25 years...
...debt to Laugh-In and to Monty Python, last year's hit on PBS, for its free-associating mixture of inanity and insult. It owes another one, too: without Python's national success, it is doubtful whether Herb Schlosser, president of NBC, would have offered Dick Ebersol such a free hand when he told him last year to come up with a live show from Manhattan. Ebersol turned to Lorne Michaels, 31, a Canadian who was a writer and co-producer for Comedienne Lily Tomlin's award-winning specials. Michaels recalls: "I wanted a show...
...devised as a development project from which people and ideas could be spun off. In fact, the whole show may be spun off by NBC. The network is anxious to air a prime-time special. But Ebersol and Michaels fear that could kill the whole thing. "And if it did work," says Ebersol with a sigh, "we'd have to think up a whole new idea for late Saturday night...
...socked it to him Hardin fast. Strange, the network cut this part of our conversation from its broadcast. Now I would never allege managed news or any such nefariously evil skullduggery. And yet there is the coincidence that the Assistant to the President of ABC Sports is one Dick Ebersol, Yale '69, classmate of F. Shorter. But sooner or later the truth will out in the Crimson. Today...