We’re not one to wish for bygone days, but cripes, would it be nice if more people working in television these days were like Robert Cunniff. Cunniff manages a completely convincing impersonation of Fishcer’s voice, walk, and manner like Cavett and most of the staff, Cunniff is half a mimic and comedian himself. Sissman’s 1972 story about Cavett’s talk show, which contains the following description of Cunniff at work: Bob Cunniff, a Cavett writer, whose face contains some of the cherubic demonism of Dylan Thomas’s, told about interviewing Bobby Fischer, the American chess master, in his room at the Park-Sheraton. The above spot illustration from The New Yorker is from L.E. He wrote for Live From Lincoln Center and created Mousterpiece Theatre on the Disney Channel.
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He won $4,750 on a TV quiz show in 1953, then lost his newspaper column in 1957 when he exposed the secrets of another TV quiz show.
(One memorable episode featured the amazing guest list of Salvador Dalí, Lillian Gish, and Satchel Paige.) He wrote a speech for Pope Paul VI. He booked guests for The Dick Cavett Show on ABC, bringing Norman Mailer, Ingmar Bergman, Jimi Hendrix, and more into America’s living rooms. He was a writer for the Today show when Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters hosted. In an era in which Ben Silverman is given a major television award, it’s remarkable to see what a real cultural life in television looked like.Ĭunniff won an Emmy as a writer and producer of Sesame Street from 1972 to 1975, but that’s just the beginning of what he accomplished on the New York television scene. We just found Robert Cunniff’s Associated Press obituary, and we were somewhat blown away by the guy’s life. We always knew that our softball buddy Steve was pretty devoted to his dad, and he talked often about what a great guy he was, but he never talked about what his dad did for a living. The pop of an acquaintance of ours died the other day. Courtesy of Jill Cunniff’s BraveNet blog. Michael Haynie (Olaf), Austin Colby (Hans), Jeremy Morse (Weselton) Click here to read the media's caption.Drawing of Robert Cunniff at work by Charles Saxon, from the May 6, 1972, New Yorker. With: Caroline Bowman (Elsa), Caroline Innerbichler (Anna), Mason Reeves (Kristoff), F. Michael Haynie (Olaf), Austin Colby (Hans), Jeremy Morse (Weselton)
In a hysterical spoof of Alistair Cooke, host George Plimpton provides a critical analysis of vintage Disney cartoons with a deadpan parody of Masterpiece Theater. Disney Theatrical Productions under the direction of Thomas Schumacher presents Frozen, the North American Tour, music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez and book by Jennifer Lee Mouseterpiece Theater: Created by Robert Cunniff. Michael Haynie (Olaf), Austin Colby (Hans), Jeremy Morse (Weselton) Click here to read the media's caption. Disney Theatrical Productions under the direction of Thomas Schumacher presents Frozen, the North American Tour, music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez and book by Jennifer Lee
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