Yes, but in 2006, at the request of SNL producers, he began flying from his home in Tucson to New York every weekend to announce the show live. He did that for four seasons, than resumed taping his lines from his home. He appeared on the show on February 23, 2008, to blow out the candles on his cake on his 90th birthday.
“You don’t even get a copy of our home game!”
“You’re a complete loser!”
RIP Don.
(My golf partner’s name is Don. Often times when he pars a hole I call him Don Pardo.)
Yep - But also there have been times when Darrel Hammond has filled in with an impression when Pardo was unavailable (due to illness, maybe?).
I used to come home at lunchtime every day during the Sixties and Seventies, to watch Jeopardy! RIP, DOn.
I’ll salute him with his greatest musical performance:
You are thinking of Garry Owens, who was also famous for being the announcer on Laugh in and he was the voice of Roger Ramjet.
He is still alive!.
Garry Owens also did some audio books. His voice is great, but when he read Shenkman’s Legends, Lies, and Cherished Myths of American History he frequently sounded as if he’d never seen the text he was reading before.
And Space Ghost, in the pre-Coast-to-Coast years.
Indeed I am! Thank you.
Superb! I assumed is was going to be “I Lost on Jeopardy.”
For those who don’t know, my link was to Pardo providing guest vocalist on Frank Zappa’s “I’m the Slime” on SNL.
And in all due respect Marley posted the same link in post 11, which I missed.
I’ve always liked that song from Overnight Sensation, my favourite Zappa album by hundreds of miles.
I learned about this Zappa video a few weeks on here: Genius in France. Amazingly great style parody.
ETA: [/hijack]
So he did. Sorry, Marley.
Not just any announcer voice, Bob!
Eh, I didn’t identify the song clearly.
You can tell that Weird Al knows Zappa’s stuff very, very well. That not only sounds like a Zappa song, it sounds like a particular type of Zappa song.
This was a “he was still alive?” moment for me. Maybe if SNL had been worth watching over the last 25 years, I would have known.
Having been on Jeopardy in 1975, I have the distinction of having been announced by Don Pardo.
Odd how you know it wasn’t worth watching without having watched it.
Hey, lawoot, thanks for finding that clip. Much obliged.
Is he the oldest person (at 96) ever to be a regular on a television show?: