Bob Tischler, the author and producer recognized for his work on Saturday Evening Stay, has died. He was 78.
The previous SNL head author, who is essentially credited with serving to revive the NBC sketch comedy present after its infamously panned 1980-81 season, died on July 13 at his dwelling in Bodega Bay, California.
His son Zeke advised The New York Instances that the reason for dying was pancreatic most cancers.
Born June 12, 1946 in Englewood, New Jersey, Tischler attended Ithaca and Franconia Schools within the Nineteen Sixties earlier than working as a sound engineer in radio and tv.
After working collectively on a radio advert, Christopher Visitor beneficial him to Nationwide Lampoon, for which he produced the albums Radio Dinner (1972), Gold Turkey (1975) and That’s Not Humorous, That’s Sick (1977), in addition to The Nationwide Lampoon Radio Hour in 1973.
Saturday Evening Stay Producer Dick Ebersol, writers Bob Tischler and Michael O’Donoghue and improvisation professional Del Shut. (Mel Finkelstein/NY Day by day Information Archive by way of Getty Photographs)
John Belushi additionally tapped Tischler to producer his and Dan Aykroyd‘s first Blues Brothers album, 1978’s Briefcase Stuffed with Blues, which topped the Billboard album chart. He went on to provide their album Made in America (1980), in addition to the soundtrack to the 1980 Blues Brothers film.
After SNL creator Lorne Michaels handed the reins to Jean Doumanian for Season 6, the present suffered till Dick Ebersol changed her and introduced on Tischler as a supervising producer. The following yr, Tischler was promoted to move author, his place till he departed in 1985.
In his 2022 autobiography From Saturday Evening to Sunday Evening: My Forty Years of Laughter, Tears, and Touchdowns in TV, Ebersol wrote that Tischler “wished the present to succeed,” including, “however greater than that, he was precisely the chief the writers’ room wanted — regular, calm and revered.”
Tischler’s work with solid member Eddie Murphy helped revive the present, additionally writing for Visitor, Billy Crystal, Martin Brief and extra. “We had this factor for Eddie, as a result of Eddie would take what we wrote and make it higher each single time,” Tischler was quoted saying in James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales‘ 2002 ebook Stay from New York: An Uncensored Historical past of Saturday Evening Stay.
Tischler additionally wrote for such exhibits as Empty Nest, One thing So Proper and Boy Meets World.
