Lorne's Exile

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.

  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.

  Here's another preseason photo of the new Saturday Night Live cast. From left to right:  Charles Rocket, Gail Matthius, Joe Piscopo, Ann Risley, Gilbert Gottfried, and Denny Dillon.

  Once again, the new cast of NBC's Saturday Night Live . Sitting at front, Charles Rocket and Denny Dillon; standing at rear, Gail Matthius, Ann Risley, Gilbert Gottfried, and Joe Piscopo. I

Here's the promo for a CBS unsold pilot entitled Off Campus (telecast on June 6, 1977), The redhead is future Taxi star Marilu Henner; the brunette is future Saturday Night Live cast member Ann Risley (Sigh!)