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After his wife of 46 years, Mary Edith Abrams Cosell (known as "Emmy") died from a heart attack in 1990, Cosell largely withdrew from the public eye and his health began failing. A longtime smoker, he was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1991, and had surgery to remove a cancerous tumor in his chest.
Billy Crystal told a funny story to Stephen Colbert on Monday about guest-hosting “The Tonight Show” back in the 1980s and having to deal with a “looped” and sobbing Howard Cosell. (Watch ...
The episode was submitted for the Emmy Award consideration and won SNL its first Emmy in 1977. [12] Lorne Michaels appears on camera for the first time in the series during a "Killer Bees" sketch gone wrong. Director Dave Wilson also appears during the same sketch. At the end of the episode, Wilson's name is jokingly crossed off in the credits ...
The shows did not compete for the same time slot. Cosell's Saturday Night Live aired at 8 p.m. ET/PT, whereas NBC's Saturday Night aired at 11:30 p.m. After Cosell's show was cancelled, the NBC show adopted the Saturday Night Live name (although that show continued to be introduced on camera as "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night"). [2]
SportsBeat (or ABC SportsBeat, its official title) was previously a television series that was hosted by Howard Cosell [1] on ABC. SportsBeat, which ran from 1983–1985, [2] [3] won three Emmy Awards. [4] ABC SportsBeat was a precursor of sorts to sports magazine shows like ESPN's Outside the Lines and HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.
The 2024 Emmy Awards are underway, and Hollywood stars wore their finest gowns, tuxedos, and jewels for the evening. But for some stars, the Emmys doubled as a date night—and they brought along ...
As John Oliver was accepting the Emmy for Scripted Variety Series for his late night show, “Last Week Tonight,” Sunday night, he started by thanking his staff at HBO. Then he shouted out his ...
Following the cancellation of ABC's Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell, NBC changed the name of the show from NBC's Saturday Night to its current title, Saturday Night Live, for the 17th episode of this second season – the episode hosted by Jack Burns on March 26, 1977. [1] The name change was not made permanent until season 3.