Famous Actor + SNL Cast Member Was Once a Colorado News Reporter

Charles Claverie, better known by his stage name Charles Rocket, was a cast member of Saturday Night Live in the 1980s and played the villain in the classic Jim Carrey movie Dumb and Dumber, but before becoming a fixture on both big and small screens, the late actor cut his teeth as a newscaster on a Colorado TV station.

Former Colorado Newscaster Charles Rocket was Fired from SNL

Born Charles Claverie on August 28, 1949, in Canterbury, Connecticut, Charles Rocket first became a fixture in living rooms across the nation as a cast member of Saturday Night Live, a position that he held from 1980 to 1981.

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Rocket’s stint on the legendary sketch comedy would be short-lived, however, as on February 21, 1981, following a sketch that parodied the ‘Dallas’ episode titled, ‘Who Shot J.R.?,’ Rocket would utter an expletive live on the air that would contribute to his firing shortly thereafter.

Former Colorado Newscaster Charles Rocket was in Numerous Films

Following his dismissal from Saturday Night Live, Rocket appeared in a number of films, including Hocus Pocus, Earth Girls Are Easy, It’s Pat, and Dances with Wolves.

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However, it would be his appearance as villain Nicholas Andre in the 1994 comedy Dumb and Dumber, much of which was filmed in Colorado, that would be considered his comeback of sorts after his dismissal from SNL.

Charles Rocket Was a Colorado Newscaster

Prior to appearing in Dumb and Dumber and Saturday Night Live, Rocket appeared on Pueblo’s KOAA-TV as a news anchor. Prior to this position, Rocket, who was using his birth name at the time, read the news at WPRI-TV in Providence, Rhode Island.

Former Colorado Newscaster Charles Rocket's Untimely Death

Unfortunately, Charles Rocket’s life would come to an end by his own hands in 2005 at the age of 56.