Edwin Newman

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the Edwin Newman episode.

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They really took their shots

I mean, I guess Hymietown was probably the, the biggest, uh, biggest shot, probably the biggest misstep of his 1984 presidential campaign.

Uh, and so...

And also, you know, I think this is another interesting Ebersol era show where, much like Don Rickles and Joan Rivers and even Edwin Newman, where the, the, the show kind of gives itself over to the host and the ebbs and flows and whims of the host, something I feel like the, the show doesn't quite do as much.

But this is very much the Jesse Jackson episode of Saturday Night Live.

Then at 6:30, there was the network news for half an hour.

And then, you know, if you're watching, uh, NBC or one of those networks during the day with the game shows, and every, uh, so often there'd be like a little five-minute, or was it one-minute news summary, little update with Edwin Newman or something, something like that.

But that was it.

You had the Sunday shows, but TV news was 6:00 news, 6:30 network news, and that was it.

Several generations ago, Georgie Jessel was a popular entertainer known as the Toastmaster General of the United States.

And during an interview on TV, what I think it was Edwin Newman, if you remember him, Georgie Jessel referred jokingly to the New York Times as Pravda, which was the state newspaper of then-communist Russia.

Newman ended the interview saying, and kept georgie chattel the postmaster general of the united states off the air think how times have changed a few days ago on your show bill o'reilly called senator chuck schumer the majority leader of the u.s senate and i quote a liar and a coward and his uh... verification passed as normal what's going on why don't you challenge uh... bill o'reilly and i want to say that this kind of uh...

Vilification pollutes our civil and political discourse, and it's really a disgrace, and it's going to lead to some very bad consequences.