Dick Ebersol
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Sep 23, 2026
Kevin HarlanGUEST
And, and but was...
Kevin HarlanGUEST
An- and he got this from Dick Ebersol and said that, you know, that the, the conversations are so important, and, and how to, how to manage those during a game while not losing sight of the game are huge, and, and the storytelling that's involved.
Kevin HarlanGUEST
The difference now between TV and TV 30, 40 years ago is we do have more commercial breaks, we've got far more replays and technical, uh, gee whiz things that happen, that that takes a lot of that conversational stuff out of it because the truck has got...
Kevin HarlanGUEST
You know, they're loaded to go, yet, you know, the thing that maybe we remember from Gowdy and L.D. Rogatus or, or, or Madden and Summerall, is that we were kind of limited back in the day.
Carter RoyHOST
That year, he falls out of favor at Saturday Night Live after appearing as a guest for almost a decade.
Carter RoyHOST
Dick Ebersol is the producer who takes over the show after Lorne Michaels leaves for a few seasons.
Carter RoyHOST
He doesn't seem to be fond of Andy's energy.
Carter RoyHOST
He bumps Andy from an episode at the last second.
Carter RoyHOST
They get into a screaming match about it backstage.
Carter RoyHOST
Uh, what the public doesn't know is that it was Dick Ebersol who first turned Lorne Michaels on to Andy's act.
Carter RoyHOST
Now, eventually, Ebersol claims that the public fight was something that Andy cooked up.
Carter RoyHOST
But on November 20th, 1982, Saturday Night Live puts Andy's place on the show to a vote.
John SchneiderHOST
Yeah.
John SchneiderHOST
That's a good pivot point where we're gonna head over to, I called it the Ebersol era.
John SchneiderHOST
I know it's the Dumanian-Ebersol era, but here we go.
John SchneiderHOST
These are all the sketches from Season 6 through 10 that made the countdown.
John SchneiderHOST
So just one Season 6 representation here with Script in Development.
John SchneiderHOST
477 for that one.
John SchneiderHOST
So, uh, disappointing that that wasn't even considered, but there was sort of, like, a runner with Larry the Lobster, so I think that maybe that kind of was hard to pinpoint how to really vote for it.
John SchneiderHOST
But it was a big moment for the Ebersol era.
Shalewa SharpeGUEST
they weren't Lorne years.
Shalewa SharpeGUEST
And I can't remember if Lorne came back and was just like these or Dick Ebersold.
Shalewa SharpeGUEST
They just did a clean house.
Shalewa SharpeGUEST
Right.
JP SorrowHOST
Exactly
Jack EncarnacaoHOST
... just like Dick Ebersol snickered about Vince behind his back in '85.
JP SorrowHOST
Exactly.
JP SorrowHOST
They're, they're still fucking counting the minutes.
Tom ZappalaHOST
Uh-
Lou BlassieHOST
Dick Ebersol?
Tom ZappalaHOST
It was right after him.
Lou BlassieHOST
Okay.
Chuck HinesHOST
We gotta pony up to protect what is ours and keep it" and see if they can kinda like do what, you know, what NBC's done with the, the Olympics over the years.
Chuck HinesHOST
You know, once they got the Olympics, Dick Ebersol started negotiating these multi-Olympic deals.
Chuck HinesHOST
Like used to be they would just be done one at a time.
Chuck HinesHOST
But he's like, "Nope, I want, I want the, this Olympics, this Olympics, and this Olympics, and I want the winter ones too, and here's what we're willing to pay." And they put so much money out there that, that the Olympic Committee couldn't say no.
Thomas SenaHOST
Mm-hmm
Denny DillonGUEST
... you know, when everything came down and we were all in and out of the new producer, Dick Ebersol's office, we all had to go in and out, that's when Charlie was fired.
Thomas SenaHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Thomas SenaHOST
And-
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Thomas SenaHOST
It was.
Thomas SenaHOST
Yeah, Jean, Jean, um, got fired and Dick took-
Denny DillonGUEST
He was fired and then Dick Ebersol came in.
Thomas SenaHOST
Yeah.
Jeremy DoveHOST
It's by far the best thing that Charles did.
Jeremy DoveHOST
I almost wish he could have just stuck to those and appeared in a sketch here and there, and I think His SNL career would have looked better than what it was.
Jeremy DoveHOST
And who knows if the less you got of Charles, maybe Dick Ebersole would have kept him for the next season.
Jeremy DoveHOST
I don't know.
Jeremy DoveHOST
Because he does, as tough as we were on him, I'm not going to sit here and say I don't see the talent in Charles Rocket either.
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Thomas SenaHOST
We get Christine Ebersole, Mary Gross and Brian Doyle Murray as the three new cast members.
Thomas SenaHOST
We saw Eddie Murphy skyrocket.
Thomas SenaHOST
We saw Dick Ebersole meeting his wife.
Stevie RichardsHOST
I mean, modern people would probably say, not so modern, but, but in this century would say Lawler.
Stevie RichardsHOST
But for my money, I have to say Jesse was just right there at the top to do everything during that time, and he was such a, a commodity that Dick Ebersol wanted J- this is after Predator.
Stevie RichardsHOST
When Jesse left for Predator and he was supposedly fired by Vince- They brought him back because Dick Ebersol requested Jesse for Saturday's main event to be the commentator on that with Vince.
Stevie RichardsHOST
So, th- that cache and that type of influence, you know, where on, on mainstream TV, uh, executive sees the value in you, that's, that's pretty big right there.
Stevie RichardsHOST
So I would say Jesse, obviously Jerry Lawler.
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