Another member of the cursed cast has had a somewhat more fruitful legacy. Cursed-cast veteran Gilbert Gottfried tells The Onion what it was like to be in history's most hated group of Not Ready For Prime Time Players. That action put him out of his SNL misery, and though he's worked steadily, it appears to have been all downhill from there. in a Dallas parody, Rocket blurted out "Who the fuck shot me?" or some variation thereof. ''Our investigation at the scene determined there was no criminal aspect to this case,' State Police Sergeant J. His throat had been cut, and the Connecticut medical examiner's office has ruled his death a suicide. The Impatient Years - Behind-the-Scenes Photos. 7 in a field near his home in Canterbury, Conn. Born Charles Adams Claverie in Bangor, Maine, he attended the Rhode Island School of Design in the late 1960s, and made several short films, and played with his band, the Fabulous Motels. An Oscar-winning character actor from Hollywoods Golden Age, Charles Coburn was as. Rocket's national moment, however, came when he joined the cursed 1980-81 cast of Saturday Night Live, hosting "Weekend Update," running a series of "Rocket Report" films (none of which I can recall, though I remember thinking they were funny), repackaging Bill Murray's brand of calcified deadpan (a manner Tom Hanks, Steve Guttenberg, Michael Keaton, Judge Reinhold, and many others would ape during the Andropov era), and finally taking the Lenny Bruce path of doing stunt-advocacy for free speech and getting no laughs: Playing J.R. Actor, he is best remembered for his role on the popular television series, Saturday Night Live during the 1980-1981 season. Those who were active then will tell you that Charles Rocket, in many ways, helped create the template for the underground/hipster/bohemian art scene here and elsewhere." He heavily influenced Talking Heads, the Young Adults, and dozens of other bands. Of Rocket's tenure in the Ocean State, the Providence Phoenix writes, "He was a towering figure in the underground arts scene in the Providence of the 1970s. Thus Charles Rocket, the former Saturday Night Live star, weatherman, cultural icon in the little-but-great state of Rhode Island, and guest star in scores of films and TV shows, receives in death the respect that was denied him in life. Suicide is the only honorable way for a comedian to die.
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