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Darrell Hammond to Replace Don Pardo as the Announcer for ‘Saturday Night Live’
By BILL CARTER SEPT. 18, 2014
Darrell Hammond, a cast member of "Saturday Night Live" from 1995 until 2009, will succeed Don Pardo as the show's announcer. Credit Lucas Jackson/Reuters
To replace a legend that began with the start of “Saturday Night Live” in 1975, Lorne Michaels has reached back to a different era in the show’s history: Darrell Hammond will be the announcer this season of “S.N.L.,” stepping in for the late Don Pardo.
NBC will make the appointment official in an announcement Thursday morning.
Mr. Hammond served longer than any other performer in the history of the NBC broadcast, working in the cast from 1995 until 2009. He also had the distinction of quietly subbing for Mr. Pardo on several occasions when the announcer could not do the show for health reasons. Mr. Hammond, who was among the best impressionists in the history of “S.N.L.,” read in the introductions in the famous Pardo voice.
Most memorably, in a show from 1999, when Mr. Pardo found at dress rehearsal that he was developing an incapacitating case of laryngitis, Mr. Hammond not only performed the introduction (“Live from New York…”) but played Mr. Pardo (in voice only) in the opening monologue with host James Vanderbeek. (In a later interview, Mr. Pardo said he heard from his sister-in-law the next day, praising him for his comic repartee with the host.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/19/b...e-announcer-for-saturday-night-live.html?_r=0
Hammond is terrifically talented and I think his being tapped to replace the legendary Don Pardo is fitting.
I wonder if he will announce the opening as Don Pardo, or if he'll do it as Darrell Hammond.
By BILL CARTER SEPT. 18, 2014
Darrell Hammond, a cast member of "Saturday Night Live" from 1995 until 2009, will succeed Don Pardo as the show's announcer. Credit Lucas Jackson/Reuters
To replace a legend that began with the start of “Saturday Night Live” in 1975, Lorne Michaels has reached back to a different era in the show’s history: Darrell Hammond will be the announcer this season of “S.N.L.,” stepping in for the late Don Pardo.
NBC will make the appointment official in an announcement Thursday morning.
Mr. Hammond served longer than any other performer in the history of the NBC broadcast, working in the cast from 1995 until 2009. He also had the distinction of quietly subbing for Mr. Pardo on several occasions when the announcer could not do the show for health reasons. Mr. Hammond, who was among the best impressionists in the history of “S.N.L.,” read in the introductions in the famous Pardo voice.
Most memorably, in a show from 1999, when Mr. Pardo found at dress rehearsal that he was developing an incapacitating case of laryngitis, Mr. Hammond not only performed the introduction (“Live from New York…”) but played Mr. Pardo (in voice only) in the opening monologue with host James Vanderbeek. (In a later interview, Mr. Pardo said he heard from his sister-in-law the next day, praising him for his comic repartee with the host.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/19/b...e-announcer-for-saturday-night-live.html?_r=0
Hammond is terrifically talented and I think his being tapped to replace the legendary Don Pardo is fitting.
I wonder if he will announce the opening as Don Pardo, or if he'll do it as Darrell Hammond.
