Funzo I’m not sure about underrated but he had a great 2:00 am style for conversation. Similar to Charlie Rose. Alec Baldwin is giving it a try but he’s not nearly as good as a listener as TS or CR. Regular real audienceless conversations are a lost art and are basically gone for good. A shame. Mice to revisit these on RU-vid. Charles Grodin was decent as well.
@@DavesFitLife Don't forget about Bob Costas, I thought he was terrific with his guest selection during his tenure; why he stopped, I still don't understand what happened there.
Agree wholeheartedly. I interview people as part of my work as a video producer. I learned so much about how to make subjects feel comfortable, how to listen and respond with great follow up questions. He was a master at that.
I always get back to Don Rickles interviews whenever I feel down and this one cracks me up every time! The, "...let's not fight over her we haven't even seen her. She may fly over here and we can see a real moose." gets me every time! RIP to both legends. I miss Don Rickles.
“..we haven’t even seen her” is one of the funniest off the cuffs I’ve ever heard. Also… at the top, Snyder gives a rundown of the guests on the show. Could you imagine if they had the couch and David Kiresh’s mother is there with Don sitting next to her? 😂
Tom Snyder endeared himseld to me one night in the early 80's. He was doing the evening news on Channel 7 in NYC and in the middle of the news, he looked up at the camera and said "It's just amazing that we get paid a lot of money just to read a teleprompter", and then he went back to the news.
...and SNYDER: "Stop it! I can't take anymore!" RICKLES: "I can see that--it's on the floor already!" A joke that you don't have to spell out is ten times more hilarious. Rickles was a master.
What a brilliant interview with two masters; Snyder one of the greatest interviewers ever and Rickles, the master of improvisational comedic chatter. Hard to believe they are both gone.
Miss Tom Snyder -- brought a NYC intensity to the -- in the era -- like non other. Was there 23 years - Bill Boggs, Tom, along came Dave -- and, they Alllll ended up at Elaine's. Miss my innocence of those days. -- lived next to comedy on first and Robin doing his comedy his way and I agree, at the end of the day - 2020 in coronavirus - and sooooooo glad I Had those days -- will Never be anything close to Tom and Don again.
You just made my evening. Absolutely loved watching Tom and his guests while going to college. This show made many a late nite study a delight! Thanks for this video.
@ Glenn Hoddle, totally agree. Tom will be forever in our hearts. He was one of a kind. His honest delivery was so refreshing. His ability to relax his guess was amazing, got so much more out of them. Thanks, Tom for all the great memories, RIP...
I grew up watching/listening to this talented man and I believe his most enduring quality is his ability to keep up with the times. He had no problem in providing a consistently interesting viewpoint and interview style while also staying relevant to younger minds.
This was top shelf stuff. Unfortunately, by this time very early days meant not watching the Late Late Show, but he was was welcomed in my home working second shift in the early 80's. Many people rightly comment on how underrated Tom was, meaning deserving more attention and note for being a consummate professional but always personable and never pretentious. I think Tom took being "underappreciated" in lieu of greater recognition. It was for the same reason that I loved working second shifts back in the day: the work is easier across the board. You are heading into work when everyone else is heading out, there's no parking hassles, there are less bosses and brass walking around. Tom knew taking this late show meant it was more his show than if he'd taken a prime time slot. Less bosses and brass, if any. Certainly no brass. So it was likely a lifestyle choice. One thing that he wasn't was underrated in the industry at all. You are not going to get calls from the likes of David Letterman into your show if you were not top shelf.
Tom liked no audiences, no reactions, but a cerebral, interesting discussion. I loved it, and think Tom was THE Master at it. Most personalities LOVE instant feed-back and the clapping, cheering, but not Tom. Wish more could do that. The Mark Levin interviews on Sunday Night on FoxNews is epic, as there is no audience, and Mark gets deeper into topics and theory, not soundbites, with one guest for an hour.
Rickles was clearly underestimated by a lot of people . He makes reference to his struggles in school but where on earth could you have found a more articulate street smart man . Looks like he was having the time of his life his whole career.
Thomas James Snyder (May 12, 1936 - July 29, 2007) was an American television personality, news anchor, and radio personality best known for his late night talk shows Tomorrow, on NBC in the 1970s and 1980s, and The Late Late Show, on CBS in the 1990s. Snyder was also the pioneer anchor of the prime time NBC News Update, in the 1970s and early 1980s, which was a one-minute capsule of news updates.
I never saw Don bust up so much as when he said, "When I came out of the service, to get girls I said I was wounded. And when they saw it they said, O my god, is that a shell?...Its so charred...it must have been a direct hit."
@10:40 Yes, I still remember when I first sawrr (New York accent) Rickles, actually here on RU-vid. I have to confess I was appalled. We all have been brainwashed with the pc agenda, to some extent. But after a while, I started to see past pc and truly get Mr Rickles. Ofc he is not racist, he makes fun of all races and we all need to stop taking ourselves so damn serious.
