1983 video release featuring the Saturday Night Live spin-off "Bob & Ray, Jane, Laraine & Gilda". Released by Pacific Arts / Broadway Video, this video is in SP mode and is 75 minutes long. The following is a review of the show taken from the IMDB - 'Saturday Night Live Presents Bob and Ray Meet Jane, Laraine & Gilda' was (as breathlessly announced by Don Pardo) the unwieldy title of a one-off special that was for all practical purposes a fairly typical third-season episode of 'Saturday Night Live'. SNL was pre-empted for one Saturday, so that this special could be broadcast in SNL's usual late-night slot.
The three ladies were joined by two guests whose comedic style was very much sympatico with SNL's home brand of humour: the veteran comedy team of Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding.
Assisted by the three SNL mesdames, Bob and Ray offered some of their typical (self-scripted) comedy routines. One sequence filmed in advance was an extended commercial for a shoelace-repair shop. Walking down the street, Ray discovers that his shoelaces are wearing out. He hies himself to the shoelace-repair shop, where Bob (wearing an eyeshade and a jeweller's loupe) carefully removes the laces from Ray's shoes, painstakingly restores them to mint condition, reinserts them in Ray's shoes (using special forceps) and sends Ray on his way happily ... all of this done with hilariously surrealistic narration.
The funniest sequence in this special was a musical turn featuring the three SNL ladies in sexy punk-disco outfits, strutting across the stage while snarling the lyric to a well-known Rod Stewart song. Just when we expect them to sing the chorus, the camera cuts to Bob and Ray intoning: 'Do ya want my body? Do ya think I'm sexy?' The sight of these two old fat guys singing a Rod Stewart song is hilarious.
All in all, this is a well-produced special. As a Bob and Ray fan, it gives me pleasure to rate this showcase for their talents 10 points out of 10.'
