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Weekend Update: Don't Call Me "Charlie"

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  Now we come to the Jean Doumanian Era's first edition of Weekend Update , hosted by actual former local news TV anchorman Charlie----oops!----Charles Rocket. One piece has Gail Matthius filling the old Laraine Newman role as Update  correspondent; in this case, Gail interviews Illinois Congressman and Independent President candidate John B. Anderson, portrayed by Joe Piscopo; the Congressman still didn't believe had not won the recent election. Here is the premiere performance of The Rocket Report as Charles tries to interview garbagemen about John Lennon and Yoko Ono's garbage. In the final portion, Gilbert Gottfried appears as an expert to says that President-elect Ronald Reagan was dead and that Vice-President-elect George H. W. Bush was holding him up.  And as was the case with announcer Don Pardo, Charles admonished Gibert that his was Charles, not Charlie. In closing Charles says "Good night and watch out!"
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Kid Creole And The Coconuts

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  Performing the first song of the Jean Doumanian Era, Kid Creole and the Coconuts is being shown doing "Mister Softee" on the Elliot Gould show.  You can find it and the rest of the November 15, 1980 telecast here .
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Got A Foot Fetish?

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From the Elliot Gould Show, here's a film by the director of Blue Lagoon Randal Kleiser entitled "Foot Fetish."  
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Say Hello To The Waxmans!

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Time for the first installment of the cable TV show, What's It All About?  with Denny Dillon and Gilbert Gottfried as the opinionated Pinky and Leo Waxman, respectively (coplete with thick Jewish accents).   Their special guest is guest hose Elliot Gould as himself.  
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Gail's Bogus Breast Cancer Self-Exam PSA

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Continuing with The Elliot Gould Show, Gail Matthius, with a black bar superimposed in front of her chest, presents an American Cancer Society breast cancer self exam PSA. This was written by staff writer Patricia Marx.
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It's Not A Telegram!

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It's a Billy-Gram! In this sketch (written by future cast member Terrance Sweeney), guest host Elliot Gould and Ann Risley were living together without marriage when they receive a singing telegram for the girlfriend's birthday, sent by her parents---only it wasn't a regular singing telegram, it's a Billy-Gram!  The deliverer, played in hammy style by Charles Rocket, sings the telegram denouncing the girlfriend's lifestyle.  Check out Charles' hammy facial style.
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The Oval Office Sketch: It Was The Election Or The Erection

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  In what was supposed to be the Jean Doumanian Era's first stab at political satire, the Elliot Gould Show's oval office sketch as a depressed (and lame duck) President Jimmy Carter (Joe Piscopo) blamed everyone, inluding Jews, for his defeat. Denny Dillon did a fine job as First Daughter Amy Carter. Meanwhile, Ann Risley's portrayal of First Lady Rosalynn Carter was pretty much on a par with Laraine Newman's in the old days, only hornier, as she told Jimmy he had to lose the election. As she told him, "It was the election or the erection." The sketch ends with Jimmy, on the intercom, calling for his brother Billy to come on out to the front lawn.  The President draws his pistol from a drawer in the desk. It was a pretty decent sketch.
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