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Jean Doumanian
Jean Doumanian (; born 1937) is an American stage, television and film producer. Early life Doumanian was born Jean Karabas and grew up in Chicago, the daughter of Greek immigrant parents. Her father was a restaurateur. She attended the University of Illinois but dropped out as a junior to marry John Doumanian in 1959, a promoter for Capitol Records. While out with her husband, who was scouting new talent in the clubs of Chicago, she met stand-up comedian Woody Allen, who was sharing a billing with Capitol singer Nancy Wilson. A friendship developed after Allen's manager, Jack Rollins, asked the couple to show Allen around Chicago and her husband became Allen's road manager. Career The Doumanians divorced and John Doumanian moved to California. Jean moved to New York at the request of up-and-coming comedian Dick Cavett as a pre-interviewer and writer for ABC's '' The Dick Cavett Show;'' and then as an associate producer for '' Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell''. In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqui Safra
Jacqui (Jacob) Eli Safra (born 1947) is a Swiss investor from Geneva. He is a descendant of the Syrian Jewish Safra banking family. Biography Jacqui Eli Safra is the son of Elie Safra (1922–1993) and his wife Yvette Dabbah (1927–2006) and the nephew of Edmond Safra. He is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and worked in various positions at the Republic National Bank of New York. Some of Safra's investments include Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., Spring Mountain Vineyard ( Saint Helena, California), Parknasilla Hotel and neighbouring Garinish Island (both near Sneem, County Kerry, Ireland). Filmography Under the name J.E. Beaucaire (the name of the character played by Bob Hope in the film '' Monsieur Beaucaire''), Safra appeared in minor roles in three movies and financed eight Woody Allen Heywood Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American filmmaker, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saturday Night Live (season 5)
The fifth season of ''Saturday Night Live'', an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between October 13, 1979, and May 24, 1980. Cast Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi left the show at the end of season 4, leaving a void in the cast that most fans thought would be the beginning of the end of the late-night sketch comedy show. Belushi left to make movies while Aykroyd had intended to stay for the fifth season, only to change his mind to concentrate on filming ''The Blues Brothers'' only weeks leading up to the season premiere. Aykroyd's sudden departure caused a rift between him and Lorne Michaels that wouldn't be healed for many years. This is the first season of the show where the opening credits include "featured players", starting with the fifth episode. The concept evolves onscreen, with Harry Shearer being credited as "a little of Harry Shearer" in the second episode before the "featuring" category is introduced in the fifth episode. To kee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian Public broadcasting, public broadcaster for both radio and television. It is a Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster, with its English-language and French-language service units known as CBC and Radio-Canada, respectively. Although some local stations in Canada predate its founding, the CBC is the oldest continually-existing broadcasting network in Canada. The CBC was established on November 2, 1936. The CBC operates four terrestrial radio networks: The English-language CBC Radio One and CBC Music, and the French-language Ici Radio-Canada Première and Ici Musique (international radio service Radio Canada International historically transmitted via shortwave radio, but since 2012 its content is only available as podcasts on its website). The CBC also operates two terrestrial television networks, the English-language CBC Television and the French-language Ici Radio-C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fridays (TV Series)
''Fridays'' was a late-night live comedy show that aired on ABC on Friday nights from April 11, 1980, to April 23, 1982. Overview The program was ABC's attempt to duplicate the success of NBC's ''Saturday Night Live'', which, at the time, was in its fifth season. Like ''SNL'', ''Fridays'' featured popular musical guests and, beginning in the second season, celebrity guest hosts, some of whom had appeared on ''SNL'' before and after ''Fridays'' aired, such as Andy Kaufman, Billy Crystal, William Shatner, Mark Hamill, and George Carlin. (Carlin, who had hosted the very first ''SNL'' in 1975, was also ''Fridays'' first official "guest host" in 1981.) The show featured many recurring characters and sketches, short films, and a parody news segment called ''Friday Edition'', with Melanie Chartoff as the anchor (later joined by Rich Hall in seasons two and three). Veteran comedian Jack Burns served as show announcer and made on-screen appearances on the show. Initially, the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Murphy
Edward Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is an American actor, comedian, and singer. He had his breakthrough as a standup comic before gaining stardom for his film roles; he is widely recognized as one of the greatest comedians of all time. He has received List of awards and nominations received by Eddie Murphy, several accolades including a Golden Globe Award, a Grammy Award, and an Primetime Emmy Award, Emmy Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award. He was honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2015 and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2023. Murphy shot to fame on the sketch comedy show ''Saturday Night Live'', for which he was a regular cast member from 1980 to 1984 and broke out as a movie star in the 1980s films ''48 Hrs.'', ''Trading Places,'' and ''Beverly Hills Cop''. He then established himself as a leading man with starring roles in: ''The Golden Child'' (1986), ''Coming to America'' (198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Laurance
Matthew Laurance is an American actor and comedian best known for starring as Ben Coleman in the Fox sitcom ''Duet'' and for his recurring role as Mel Silver on ''Beverly Hills, 90210''. Early life, family and education Matthew Dickoff was born in Queens, New York City and raised in suburban Hewlett, Long Island. He has an identical twin brother, Mitchell (born four minutes earlier), who is also a professional actor. Both brothers are graduates of Tufts University. Career Laurance appeared on ''Saturday Night Live'' during its sixth season. He left ''SNL'' after one season (albeit a short season, only 13 episodes). Laurance portrayed bass player Sal Amato in the 1983 cult hit '' Eddie and the Cruisers'', and he was the only cast member besides Michael Paré and Michael Antunes to appear in the 1989 sequel, '' Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!'' He also had a role in ''Streets of Fire'', as one of the two Ardmore police officers who enter the bus Tom Cody (Michael Par� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvonne Hudson
Yvonne Hudson (born July 9, 1955) is an American television actress and comedian who is best known for being the first African-American female cast member on ''Saturday Night Live''. ''Saturday Night Live'' bios, NBC.com. Archived at the Internet Archive, 2008-03-29. Retrieved April 5, 2010. She joined the cast as a featured player in the show's 1980–1981 season (the first black female repertory player was Danitra Vance). She is also the third African-American to become an ''SNL'' cast member following Garrett Morris and Eddie Murphy, who started one week ahead of her. Hudson first appeared on the show in 1978 as an uncredited extra Extra, Xtra, or The Extra may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media Film * The Extra (1962 film), ''The Extra'' (1962 film), a Mexican film * The Extra (2005 film), ''The Extra'' (2005 film), an Australian film Literature * Extra (newspaper), ... in many episodes. Hudson was the front desk receptionist for the show, prior to being made a fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Rocket
Charles Adams Claverie (August 28, 1949 – October 7, 2005), known by stage names Charlie Hamburger, Charlie Kennedy, and Charles Rocket, was an American actor. He was a cast member on ''Saturday Night Live,'' played the villain Nicholas Andre in the film '' Dumb and Dumber'', and played Dave Dennison in Disney's '' Hocus Pocus''. Early life Rocket was born in Bangor, Maine, the son of Mary Aurelia (née Fogler) and Sumner Abbott "Ham" Claverie. His grandfather was Raymond H. Fogler, who had served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. He attended Winnacunnet High School and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in the late 1960s and was part of the Rhode Island underground culture scene in the 1970s that also included Talking Heads frontman David Byrne and film director Gus Van Sant. Career Rocket made several short films and fronted his band, the Fabulous Motels, on accordion (which he later used in an ''SNL'' sketch about a crazed criminal who uses an accordion to kill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Risley
Anna F. "Ann" Risley (born Madison, Wisconsin) is a retired American actress and comedian. She was a cast member of the TV series ''Saturday Night Live'' for the 12 episodes of the 1980–1981 season. These 12 broadcasts were the first episodes after producer Lorne Michaels left the show. Life and career She was spotted by Woody Allen in a theatre production of his material and encouraged her to pursue an acting career in New York. Risley was cast in small parts in Allen's films ''Annie Hall'', ''Manhattan'' and ''Stardust Memories''. Before joining the cast of ''Saturday Night Live'', she had a cameo on the show in 1976 as a psychiatrist's patient. She was cast for ''Saturday Night Live'' by Jean Doumanian, who had previously been the show's guest-booker, then associate producer. After 12 episodes, Doumanian was replaced by Dick Ebersol, who fired Risley along with Gilbert Gottfried and Charles Rocket before his first episode. In a 1999 article in ''People'', Risley was quoted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Piscopo
Joseph Charles John Piscopo ( ; born June 17, 1951) is an American actor, comedian and conservative radio talk show host. He was a cast member on ''Saturday Night Live'' from 1980 to 1984, where he played a variety of recurring characters. His film roles include Danny Vermin in '' Johnny Dangerously'' (1984), Moe Dickstein in '' Wise Guys'' (1986), Doug Bigelow in '' Dead Heat'' (1988) and Kelly Stone in '' Sidekicks'' (1992). Early life Piscopo was born in Passaic, New Jersey, and grew up in North Caldwell. He attended West Essex High School and was a member of the drama club "The Masquers." He developed a reputation for never playing a part the way it was written. After graduating in 1969, Piscopo attended Jones College in Jacksonville, Florida, where he received a degree in broadcast management. ''Saturday Night Live'' In the summer of 1980, Piscopo was hired as a contract player for ''Saturday Night Live''. The show had gone through a major upheaval when all the write ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gail Matthius
Abigail Mary Matthias (born ) is an American actress and comedian. She was a cast member of NBC's ''Saturday Night Live'' during its critical and ratings low point at the time (the 1980–1981 season, produced by Jean Doumanian), and co-anchored the ''Weekend Update'' segment with Charles Rocket in 1981. Early life and career A native of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College, Matthius had performed at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles prior to successfully auditioning for Doumanian's cast. Matthius's time on the show occurred only a year after her move to Los Angeles, a move that was funded by performing jingles and visiting farms on behalf of Allis-Chalmers tractors across the Great Plains. ''Saturday Night Live'' In 2015, the magazine ''Rolling Stone'' ranked Matthius at, out of 141 cast members, the 74th best of ''Saturday Night Live'', calling her, "A flicker of hope in the ''Saturday Night Live'' 1980 debacle, with a sharp valley girl mal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert Gottfried
Gilbert Jeremy Gottfried (February 28, 1955 – April 12, 2022) was an American stand-up comedian and actor, best-known for his exaggerated shrill voice, strong New York dialect, his squint, and his edgy, often-controversial, sense of humor. His numerous roles in film and television included voicing Iago in The Walt Disney Company's ''Aladdin'' franchise until his death in 2022, Mister Mxyzptlk in '' Superman: The Animated Series'' and '' Justice League Action'', Digit LeBoid in PBS Kids' '' Cyberchase'' until his death in 2022, Kraang Subprime in ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'', and the Aflac duck (before he was replaced by Daniel McKeague in 2011). He also played Mr. Peabody in the '' Problem Child'' franchise, the only actor in the series to reprise his role in all three films as well as the animated television series. Gottfried hosted ''Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast'' (2014–2022), along with Frank Santopadre, which featured discussions of classic fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
