“I beg your Pardo”
Awwwhh. Fond original SNL memories.
RIP.
A staple of radio and television for decades. He and Gary Owens had such interesting and distinctive voices.
That show was the greatest when he was on.
The categories were loaded with intelligent, academic questions. Since that bloviating egotist Alex Trebec has been on,the idiot categories of pop culture stuff have proliferated, Democrat politics has been introduced, and queers have appeared among the contestants.
Rest in Don Pardo, a product of a gentler time.
He was great in Weird Al Yankovic’s, “I Lost On Jeopardy.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvUZijEuNDQ
Don Pardo on flubbing the first SNL open:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxQbybXEg3s
Like Leslie Nielsen, Don Pardo made a hugely successful second career out of parodying the “serious” persona of his first career. That’s a cool kind of genius, right there.
JFK assassination Don Pardo recording by Phil Gries November 22, 1963:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgvwA8UUaC0
#3.
Excerpt from biography.com
http://www.biography.com/people/don-pardo-259341#synopsis:
Don Pardo is a velvet-toned television announcer known for his work over the years on such NBC shows as Saturday Night Live and The Price Is Right.
With his smooth-sounding voice, Don Pardo is perhaps one of the best-known television announcers of all time, beginning his career in the 1940s at NBC Radio. Staying with NBC, Pardo made the move to TV in the 1950s, working on a number of game shows, including The Price Is Right. Pardo took on a new challenge in 1975, becoming the announcer for the hit sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live.
Don Pardo on the Price is Right with Bill Cullen. Bill Cullen announces the birth of Pardo’s sixth baby girl and more.
The Price is Right - Don Pardo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAUI0XS936c
wow, rip don. 96 years, great run!
Just got home from work. The guy on the local talk radio said that Pardo was a reporter during WWII.
Another of the great ones has passed.
Rest in peace, and enjoy your new job as God’s announcer!
One of the giants in his field. RIP.