Lorne's Exile

  Continuing with The Elliot Gould Show, here's the Petroleum Commercial, filmed and written by Mr. Bill's creator, Walter Williams.  This is their version of the old roadside Burma Shave signs.

  In the first monologue of Saturday Night Live '80 's season, guest host Elliot Gould spoke to the audience and showed them various types of underwear, then swapped a pair of his shorts for Denny Dillon's panties.

  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.

  It is Saturday, November 15, 1980 and Elliot Gould is guest host of the opening episode of Saturday Night Live 's sixth season, and you can view it here . This is Elliot's sixth (and to this day, most recent) episode as guest host. Kid Creole and the Coconuts are the musical guests on this night. As each episode progresses, we'll touch on individual sketches, starting with the cold opening recalling SNL 's "Glory Days". The opening shot of the opening episode of the Jean Doumanian Era  is of a sleepy Gail Matthius, who realizes the show is about to open, then wakes up next to guest host Elliot Gould, who are introduced to the new cast members and with each describing himself as a cross between two of the cast members from the original era.   Gail described herself as a cross between Gilda Radner and Jane Curtin. Next, up popped Charles Rocket, a cross between Chevy Chase and Bill Murray. Next up, it's Ann Risley, describing herself as a cross between Gil...

In mia-October of 1980, roughly before the Season Six premiere, Tony Schwartz of The New York Times  wrote this piece in which he revealed the names of the new Saturday Night Live cast members. Variety later wrote that producer Jean Doumanian leaked their names to Mr. Schwartz after a disgruntled ex-staffer had leaked the names to The New York Daily News. Nevertheless the Times revealed the names first. As a major consequence of this action, NBC had cancelled a press conference that was supposed to introduce the new cast members; NBC president and CEO Fred Silverman and the head of the Entertainment Division, Brandon Tartikoff were none too pleased with the revoltin' developments about Jean's leak to Tony Schwartz without Fred's or Brandon's knowledge.  

  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 ...

Following the firing of Peter Tauber, Jean Doumanian hired Abilene, Texas-born guitarist, composer, singer, writer, comedian, and poet Mason Williams .  A former writer and regular on the original Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour , Mr. Williams scored a major instrumental hit in 1968, with his own composition "Classical Gas." After her unhappy experience with Peter Tauber, Jean thought that with Mason and his experience in television comedy writing aboard, that the situation with the writing staff would become more stable. That was what she thought.