This blog is dedicated to the cast members and writers of the five seasons of NBC's "Saturday Night Live" as produced from 1980 to 1985, the five years in between the two Lorne Michaels regimes, in short, as produced by Jean Doumanian and her replacement, Dick Ebersol
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From the Elliot Gould Show, here's a film by the director of Blue Lagoon Randal Kleiser entitled "Foot Fetish."
After auditions during the summer of 1980, here are the members of the new cast of Saturday Night Live , as chosen by producer Jean Doumanian: Cleveland-born Denny Dillon, an actress and comedienne, whose previous experience on TV including appearing as a guest in the show's third-ever episode in 1975 (hosted by Rob Reiner) doing a stand-up routine dressed as a nun with comedy partner Mark Hampton, also dressed as a nun. You can find the episode here . She appeared on Broadway in Gypsy and Harold and Maude . She even had a small role in the motion picture Saturday Night Fever . More recently, Denny was a regular on a short-lived (1979-80) NBC Saturday morning kids' show Hot Hero Sandwich . In another post, you'll get to see a segment from that show's premiere (November 10, 1979). Brooklyn-born Gilbert Gottfried honed his act on the Comedy Shop circuit by acting like a manic madman. There are doubts the Gilbert's manic style would go over on television, but...
Here is the photo of guest host Elliot Gould as well as another rundown of the new cast members (remember, folks, Eddie Murphy was not included in the opening telecast) of the newly-rebranded Saturday Night Live '80 : Elliot Gould, Guest Host Denny Dillon Gilbert Gottfried Gail Matthius Joe Piscopo Ann Risley Charles Rocket And, for good measure, here are musical guests Kid Creole and The Coconuts.
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