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‘Saturday Night Live’ Was Dying. Then Eddie Murphy Showed Up.
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1766" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.theringer.com/tv/2019/12/20/21029815/eddie-murphy-saturday-night-live-first-season-mister-robinson" target="_blank"><strong>‘Saturday Night Live’ Was Dying. Then Eddie Murphy Showed Up. - The Ringer</strong></a></p><p></p><p>It began with—of all things—a newspaper article. In the fall of 1980, during the disastrous sixth season of <em>Saturday Night Live</em>, first-year writer Barry Blaustein’s father sent him a story out of Cleveland. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1980/12/26/schools-must-reconsider-racial-quotas/0dad8823-9b29-4a4a-b7ef-e2cb03dd14f7/" target="_blank">The report</a> focused on court-appointed administrator Donald R. Waldrip, who as part of a larger desegregation plan, had ordered the city’s mostly black high school basketball teams to diversify their rosters with more white players. </p><p></p><p>“The directive indicates that Cleveland basketball teams may eventually be chosen by casting directors from <em>The White Shadow</em>,” <a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1980/12/03/111320423.html?pageNumber=109" target="_blank"><em>New York Times</em></a> columnist George Vecsey wrote, name-checking the television series about a racially mixed Los Angeles high school squad. “But it does not live up to the highest values in sports.”</p><p></p><p>Desperate for material, Blaustein decided that this notoriously misguided attempt at integration would be the perfect thing to skewer in a sketch. He and his writing partner, David Sheffield, just needed someone they could pitch the idea to. Fortunately, they had a colleague itching for screen time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1766, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.theringer.com/tv/2019/12/20/21029815/eddie-murphy-saturday-night-live-first-season-mister-robinson'][B]‘Saturday Night Live’ Was Dying. Then Eddie Murphy Showed Up. - The Ringer[/B][/URL] It began with—of all things—a newspaper article. In the fall of 1980, during the disastrous sixth season of [I]Saturday Night Live[/I], first-year writer Barry Blaustein’s father sent him a story out of Cleveland. [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1980/12/26/schools-must-reconsider-racial-quotas/0dad8823-9b29-4a4a-b7ef-e2cb03dd14f7/']The report[/URL] focused on court-appointed administrator Donald R. Waldrip, who as part of a larger desegregation plan, had ordered the city’s mostly black high school basketball teams to diversify their rosters with more white players. “The directive indicates that Cleveland basketball teams may eventually be chosen by casting directors from [I]The White Shadow[/I],” [URL='https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1980/12/03/111320423.html?pageNumber=109'][I]New York Times[/I][/URL] columnist George Vecsey wrote, name-checking the television series about a racially mixed Los Angeles high school squad. “But it does not live up to the highest values in sports.” Desperate for material, Blaustein decided that this notoriously misguided attempt at integration would be the perfect thing to skewer in a sketch. He and his writing partner, David Sheffield, just needed someone they could pitch the idea to. Fortunately, they had a colleague itching for screen time. [/QUOTE]
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