📺 Elliott Gould · Kid Creole & the Coconuts
Saturday Night Live · season 6, episode 107 · Saturday, November 15, 1980 Host: Elliott Gould (6th time). Musical guest: Kid Creole & the Coconuts. • Kid Creole & the Coconuts perform "Mister Softee" and "There But for the Grace of God Go I". • The cold opening has Elliott Gould (in his sixth time hosting) in bed with many of the cast members (a play on Gould's 1969 film Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice), who tries to allay their anxieties, and tells Gail Matthius she is "kind of a cross between Jane [Curtin] and Gilda [Radner]." Charles Rocket announces that he is a cross between Chevy Chase and Bill Murray, Ann Risley says she is "a cross between Gilda and Laraine [Newman]" and Gilbert Gottfried calls himself a cross between John Belushi and "that guy from last year" who did a Rod Serling impression (Harry Shearer). • The first sketch, set in the Oval Office, showed Rosalynn Carter (Ann Risley) trying to seduce Jimmy Carter (Joe Piscopo) who is still depressed over his defeat in the 1980 presidential election, with Amy played by Dillon. • In the debut of the "Rocket Report" segment, Rocket pesters people around The Dakota for information about John Lennon's upcoming album. • A short film by The Blue Lagoon director Randal Kleiser titled "Foot Fetish" is shown. • A music video directed by Jonathan Demme for the song "Gidget Goes To Hell" by the post-punk band Suburban Lawns also appears. • Wendie Malick appears in the background of the Nose Wrestling sketch. • Denny Dillon, Gilbert Gottfried, Gail Matthius, Joe Piscopo, Ann Risley and Charles Rocket's first episode as cast members. • Jean Doumanian's first episode as executive producer. Wiki link