Don Pardo is 87 today. He still introduces nearly every Saturday Night Live broadcast.

Wow! That's fantastic. He began at NBC in 1944, I believe. Not bad having a job that you love so much that 61 years later, you're still there. Cheers to him.

He seems not to be aging too badly, judging from the interview he gave for last Sunday's SNL: the First Five Years special.

Wow. I hope to be half as active as Pardo when I'm 87. Heck, I'm hoping to be half as active as Pardo when I'm 37!

I happen to be half as old as Pardo AND half as active.

If my memory serves me correctly, he was the WNBC-TV newscast announcer, too.

Yep, and he also did some of the "Live at Five" newscasts IN STUDIO, as well. [example seen here]

And also, if my memory serves me correctly, he was the announcer of the original TPIR.

And I think he would've been a great successor to Rod (before the producers decided on Rich).

And let's not forget, when Wheel traveled to the Radio City Music Hall in '88, he announced during the entire time they were there.

Nice opening shot...I also remember how Pardo would occasionally be seen on-camera doing his opening/closing spiels for Live at Five, back in the 80s.

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

I think Don's still got an exclusive contract with NBC. CBS couldn't get him if they wanted to.

There were actually so many problems with the original statement that many of us didn't even bother to comment on it. But sure, that's as good a place to start as any. An 86-year-old lifelong New Yorker uprooting his life to go west and work on an extremely demanding show when he has absolutely nothing to prove would be another way you could go.