Darrell Hammond Filled in for Don Pardo This Weekend Due to Injury
Astute SNL viewers noticed this weekend that longtime announcer Don Pardo was missing from the show's opening credits and was instead replaced by a Don Pardo impersonator. TMZ reports that Pardo broke his hip last week but is recovering just fine. The 95-year-old announcer has been with the show since its premiere in 1975, only missing one early '80s non-Lorne Michaels season along the way. Pardo stayed with SNL after announcing his retirement from NBC in 2004. He moved from New York to Tucson, Arizona, after his NBC retirement but flies to the East Coast to announce each new show or pre-records his announcements from home. The announcer [...]
