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Podcast: Wasn't That Special: 50 Years of SNL Podcast
Episode: Season Ten (1984-85): Billy Crystal and Martin Short Join the 'All-Star' Cast
Description: In this episode, available for free to all listeners, we discuss Season Ten, the season of Saturday Night Live in which Executive Producer Dick Ebersol brought in a slew of high-priced, proven talent to give the show a boost.Those new cast members included Billy Crystal, who effectively became Eddie Murphy’s replacement in Season Nine, hosting two of the final five shows and showing up as a special guest in another. Ebersol also brought on Martin Short, who had a suitcase full of plug-and-play recurring characters from his years on SCTV.Ebersol also mined th...