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...Chevy Chase, whose weekly specialty is a lampoon of Ron's accident-prone boss. Nessen played straight man as Chase impersonated President Ford stapling his ear to his head, trying to hit a golf ball with a tennis racket and stumbling through the Oval Office with a football helmet on his head. While Nessen was off-camera, another SN regular launched a malapropian tirade against "presidential erections." As a result of prior urgings by Nessen and White House Photographer David Kennerly, President Ford briefly appeared on the show, via videotape, with some wooden gags of his own. Though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 3, 1976 | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

...riding on the Ronald Reagan press but, following Reagan's campaign appearances at junior high schools. "They were asking him questions like, "Why are you running for President?'" Franken said, shaking his head. "So I asked him how he could be against decriminalization of marijuana and be against motorcycle helmet legislation because motorcycle helmets infringe of people's rights. Then the assistant press secretary threw me off the press bus. Reagan is just...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: Live From New York: It's Al Franken | 4/16/1976 | See Source »

...Waldo Von Erich, the all-German Champ, who parades around matches in Buffalo, his home-away-from-home, in full Nazi regalia, including hobnailed boots, Iron Cross medallion, World War II helmet, and leather whip. He has developed a hold which translates into English as "The Claw." When applied to the soft underbelly of the soft underbelly of an inexperienced grappler, von Erich's steel hard grip can gouge through ordinary flesh and grasp ever-so vital internal organs. Von Erich is equipped with a device which was developed late in the War--a sort of belt which wraps around...

Author: By Nick Eberstadt, | Title: Some Notes on Big-Time Wrestling | 4/15/1976 | See Source »

...rumpled jersey and the battle-scarred helmet wouldn't give it away. Neither would the powerful skating nor the sexless "L. Wood" that would appear in the morning paper's boxscore...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Creme de la Cramer | 3/18/1976 | See Source »

Trudeau also erased the Y on B.D.'s helmet, clothed all the naked girls, deleted expletives, and completely redrew nearly an entire year's worth of strips to lend them a universal appeal. He enrolled in the Yale graduate School of Art, studying by day and sweating over the drawing board at night. "I nearly killed myself doing both," he recalls. Along the way, Michael J. Doonesbury started tutoring in the ghetto, B.D. went to Viet Nam and met Phred the Terrorist, and Mark Slackmeyer used his experience as a campus radical to organize a truckers' strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOONESBURY: Drawing and Quartering for Fun and Profit | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

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