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Bob Tischler, a member of the Saturday Night time Stay writing and manufacturing staff credited with serving to revive the present within the Eighties, has died at 78.
His son Zeke advised The New York Occasions that Tischler died because of pancreatic most cancers at his house in Bodega Bay, California, on 13 July.
Tischler was born on 12 June 1946 in Englewood, New Jersey, and attended the Ithaca and Franconia schools. He labored in radio and tv as a sound engineer and went on to supply the Nationwide Lampoon Radio Hour and a number of other of the comedy journal’s albums reminiscent of Radio Dinner in 1972, Gold Turkey in 1975, and That’s Not Humorous, That’s Sick in 1977.
He then labored on his good friend and SNL forged member John Belushi’s first Blues Brothers album referred to as Briefcase Stuffed with Blues, which went on to prime the Billboard album chart.
Tischler produced 4 extra albums for the Blues Brothers, a musical comedy duo of Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. He additionally produced the soundtrack for his or her eponymous movie in 1980, which hit quantity 13 on the Billboard chart.
From November 1980 to April 1981, SNL went via what critics contemplate to be its lowest ebb, after creator Lorne Michaels handed producer duties to Jean Doumanian for Season 6. When Dick Ebersol was introduced in to interchange Doumanian, he employed Tischler as a supervisory producer on the urging of then SNL head author Michael O’Donoghue.
Tischler was promoted to go author in 1981 when O’Donoghue was fired after he wrote a sketch evaluating late NBC president Fred Silverman to Adolf Hitler. Tischler stayed head author till he left the present in 1985.
Tischler was “precisely the chief the writers’ room wanted,” Ebersol recalled in his 2022 autobiography From Saturday Night time to Sunday Night time: My Forty Years of Laughter, Tears, and Touchdowns in TV, describing him as “regular, calm and revered”.
Tischler is credited with revitalising SNL, writing for forged members who would go on to change into stars reminiscent of Eddie Murphy, whom Tischler closely backed, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Joe Piscipo, and Jim Belushi.
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“We had this factor for Eddie, as a result of Eddie would take what we wrote and make it higher each single time,” Tischler stated in Stay From New York.
The 1984 season additionally noticed the return of extremely fashionable performers like Christopher Visitor, Martin Quick, and Billy Crystal.
After leaving SNL, Tischler wrote for exhibits reminiscent of Empty Nest, One thing So Proper, and Boy Meets World.
He’s survived by his spouse Judith, son Zeke, and brother Jim.
