First Family (1980) - (Movie Clip) The President Is Not A Depraved Half-Wit

First Family (1980) -- (Movie Clip) Not Fit To Suck On My Hat

Very much a set piece, in the first scene for Harvey Korman as the American U.N. Ambassador, Maurice Sherbanee the Arab delegate, Bruce Kimmel the translator, writer-director Buck Henry romping, in his little-noticed political comedy First Family, 1980.

First Family (1980) -- (Movie Clip) Can I Deny Something?

A forerunner of the walk-and-talk scenes known from The West Wing and other TV shows, Bob Newhart the president, Madeline Kahn the first lady, Fred Willard the aide Feebleman, Richard Benjamin the press secretary, Gilda Radner the daughter attempting another escape, in writer-director Buck Henry’s First Family, 1980.

First Family (1980) -- (Movie Clip) Meet A Nice Tall Average Blonde Guy

First scene for Madeline Kahn as first lady Constance Link, with Gilda Radner as daughter Gloria, who’s just been thwarted by the Secret Service in what is apparently one of many inept attempts at a tryst, in writer-director Buck Henry’s First Family, 1980, starring Bob Newhart as the president.