Name |
Don Pardo |
Height |
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Naionality |
American |
Date of Birth |
22-February-1918 |
Place of Birth |
Westfield, Massachusetts, U.S |
Famous for |
Acting |
Don Pardo is an American radio and television announcer. He is known as the voice of the long-running late night sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live. Pardo is noted for his long association with NBC, working as the announcer for early incarnations of such notable shows as The Price is Right, Jeopardy!, and NBC Nightly News. He has been the announcer of Saturday Night Live for all but one of its seasons. He continues to provide voiceover services during the program's opening montage, several years after his official retirement from NBC.
In the early 1950s, he served as announcer for many of RCA's and NBC's closed-circuit color television demonstrations. He eventually became one of the top game-show announcers for the network. Pardo made his mark on game shows for NBC as the booming voice of the original The Price Is Right from 1956 until it moved to ABC in 1963, then Call My Bluff. The next year, he moved to Jeopardy!, which he announced from 1964 until the original version of the series ended in 1975. Pardo reprised that role with a cameo voiceover in "Weird Al" Yankovic's 1984 song "I Lost on Jeopardy" (a parody of the Greg Kihn Band's 1983 hit song "Jeopardy"). He also announced numerous other New York–based NBC game shows, such as Three on a Match, Winning Streak, and Jackpot!, all three of which were Bob Stewart productions.