On television, in addition to guest spots on several 1980s sitcoms, Rocket played network president Ned Grossberg on the cyberpunk series Max Headroom, Richard Addison (brother to Bruce Willis's David Addison) on the comedy-drama Moonlighting, and Adam on Touched by an Angel. Rocket recovered from this early-career setback and worked steadily in film, with roles in such movies as Earth Girls Are Easy, It's Pat, Steal Big Steal Little, How I Got into College, Dances with Wolves and Dumb and Dumber, often playing comedic foils. In Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live, it is reported that Rocket was particularly hostile to Murphy and Piscopo. Piscopo and Eddie Murphy were the only cast members to survive the axe, as new producer Dick Ebersol replaced Denny Dillon and Gail Matthius after one episode. I'd like to know who the fuck did it." ĭue partially to the violation of broadcast standards, along with Saturday Night Live's low ratings, Doumanian and Rocket were soon fired (along with most of the writers and fellow cast members Gilbert Gottfried and Ann Risley). In character, Rocket improvised, "Oh, man, it’s the first time I've ever been shot in my life. In the show's closing moments, as cast members gathered with the host to say good night, Tilton asked Rocket how he felt about being shot. During the show, Rocket was shot in the chest by a sniper in the middle of a sketch. The Februepisode hosted by Dallas star Charlene Tilton featured a parody of the famed " Who Shot J.R.?" story arc from the then-popular nighttime soap. Rocket was tapped to anchor Weekend Update, and was featured in more sketches than any other male cast member that season with the exception of Joe Piscopo. Singled out by new executive producer Jean Doumanian, he was promoted as a cross between Bill Murray and Chevy Chase. Rocket was cast for the 1980–81 season, which followed the departure of the remaining members of the show's original cast and executive producer Lorne Michaels. Later in his career Rocket would lend his accordion talents to the David Byrne-produced B-52's album Mesopotamia. He made his network debut on Saturday Night Live in 1980, using the name Charles Rocket.
He later anchored the local news at Channel 12 WPRI and at KOAA-TV in Colorado Springs, Colorado under his own name, and WTVF Nashville under the name Charles Kennedy. Rocket made several short films and fronted his band, the Fabulous Motels, on accordion. In a RISD yearbook, the dynamic duo appeared in a photo at the Rhode Island State House with then-Governor Frank Licht. He appeared from time to time with his friend Dan Gosch as superheroes "Captain Packard" and his faithful sidekick "Lobo". They were married on board the battleship USS Massachusetts anchored in Fall River, Massachusetts. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design 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.
Rocket was born Charles Adams Claverie in Bangor, Maine.
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