What were your favorite holiday specials? For a brief time in the early 1980s, as the Carter administration gave way to the Reagan era, Melanie Chartoff, Bruce Mahler, Larry David and Michael Richards were part of an industrious ensemble on Fridays, along with Darrow Igus, Mark Blankfield, his wife Brandis Kemp, John Roarke and Maryedith Burrell.