{"id":12835,"date":"2014-08-19T09:14:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T14:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=12835"},"modified":"2014-08-19T09:14:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T14:14:35","slug":"rip-snl-announcer-don-pardo-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=12835","title":{"rendered":"RIP: SNL Announcer Don Pardo, 96"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime <i>Saturday Night Live<\/i> announcer Don Pardo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/19\/nyregion\/don-pardo-the-voice-of-saturday-night-live-dies-at-96.html?smid=tw-share&#038;_r=0\">has died<\/a>. I think he was the last person who worked on the inaugural season of <i>SNL<\/i> who stayed on with the show for it&#8217;s entire run. (Lorne Michaels went away for five years before coming back to the show.)<\/p>\n<p>He was a great announcer, and he did a lot of work in radio and on TV game shows like <i>Jeopardy<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>Here he is on why script writers should use short words:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pkyqoiciL-k\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Don Pardo passed away yesterday. But he will receive some lovely parting gifts.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Walters (@jdubs88) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jdubs88\/statuses\/501729801410199552\">August 19, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime Saturday Night Live announcer Don Pardo has died. I think he was the last person who worked on the inaugural season of SNL who stayed on with the show for it&#8217;s entire run. (Lorne Michaels went away for five years before coming back to the show.) He was a great announcer, and he did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[474,12],"tags":[1828,597,690,1987,1974],"class_list":["post-12835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv","category-video","tag-don-pardo","tag-obituary","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-tv","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12835"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12841,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12835\/revisions\/12841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}