Chris Elliott gets ready to deliver the morning news, riding his bike — and riding on into comedy bliss — as the star of the short-lived but long-remembered 1990 Fox-TV series Get a Life! Elliott played Chris Peterson, a 30-year-old paperboy still living at home with his parents (Elinor Donahue and real-life dad Bob Elliott) and getting into all sorts of dopey, ofttimes surreal  trouble.