The End Of An Era…
Don Pardo, the Voice of ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Dies at 96
An announcer whose career began with radio and grew with popular game shows like “The Price Is Right,” he was best known for decades of introducing stars on the sketch comedy.
The 1956 Conventions: The Birth Of A Team In 1956, both the Democratic (San Francisco) and Republican (Chicago) political conventions were big events for television. To anchor at both, NBC paired Chet Huntley and David Brinkley. They were well received and the rest, as they say, is history. By 1956, NBC executives had grown dissatisfied […]
Of all the bio and tribute shows I have seen, THIS IS THE BEST EVER! Really! There is very rare footage here of Steve’s carrier and even the very first ‘Jose Jimenez’ sketch from Bill Dana who Allen discovered, along with Don Knotts, Tim Conway, Tom Poston, Louis Nye and more… you will see them […]
SNL Classic! Behind The Scenes Of “The Continental” Sketches This past Saturday night, the SNL classic episode that aired at 10 PM was the April 8, 2000 episode with Christopher Walken as host and the big sketch from this show was the “Cowbell” scene with Will Ferrell. But, whenever Walken hosts, he does a recurring […]
David Letterman…First Monologue, First Show February 1, 1982, Late Night premiered with a cold opening featuring Larry “Bud” Melman delivering lines as an homage to the prologue of Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein, followed by Letterman coming out on stage behind a group of female dancers – the peacock girls. After a brief monologue, the very first […]