Lorne's Exile

  Alongside the newly-hired head writer Mason Williams, here's a list of Saturday Night Live 's new writers: Barry Blaustein from 'round New York town, a former associate producer of the then-Hollywood-based Mike Douglas Show , who, in one of Jean Doumanian's best moves as producer, teamed up with Mississippi -born ex-ad man David Sheffield. John DeBellis, who succeeded in getting Joe Piscopo and audition. Brian Doyle-Murray (Bill Murray's brother), the lone holdover from the previous season's staff. A West-Coast team, David Hurwitz and Larry Arnstein, who were behind the San Francisco-based television show The Chicken Little Comedy Show . Sean Kelly, an Irish-born, Canadian-raised  veteran of The National Lampoon . Artist, writer , and actor Terrence (Terry) Sweeney. Patricia Marx, a native of Abington, Pennsylvania who was a humorist and writer. The aforementioned Richmond, Virginia-born Mitchell Kriegman, who was an actor, writer, comedian, and filmmaker ...

  With the upcoming season on the horizon, producer Jean Doumanian had to assemble a new cast---and a new writing staff . Bill Murray's older brother, Brian Doyle-Murray, was the only holdover from the season 5 staff.  He, like brother Billy, knew Jean.   Brian was one of several "featured performers" on that fifth season, made up almost entirely of staff writers (Al Franken, Tom Davis, Jim Downey, Don (Father Guido Sarducci) Novelo, Harry Shearer (before he was promoted to the full-pledged cast at midseason) among others; and exception was musician Paul Shaffer). Among others Jean hired were the team of David Hurwitz and Larry Arnstein, who previously worked on the Chicken Little Hour ; Pam Norris, who previously worked at The Harvard Lampoon ; Sean Kelly, from the National Lampoon , Mitchell Kriegman (who was a filmmaker and who would appear as an occasional performer), and Mason ("Classical Gas")Williams, songwriter/guitarist/comedian and a former writer for ...