Rich Little: Still making a great impression 

Same here.

at 82 he looks totally different!

@@Chicago48 Uh yeah...he looks like Reagan.

@@Chicago48 We will all look a little different at 82 . Some will be unrecognizable. Some will never be a day older just without oxygen.

I found that to be so interesting! I also loved David Niven’s voice/delivery.

Little even gave the cartoon Pink Panther a David Niven voice, in the one or two times the studio tried to experiment with giving the character dialogue: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DdcugKs_9D8.html

@@ericjanssen394 aww 😊 thank you 🙏 I hope he gets rediscovered by a new generation

He stood in for Stacey Keach when he had some legal trouble and did the voice over for the narration of some of the Mike Hammer shows also.

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LMAO...Great? LMAO..Open your ears

Well said!!!

May your day be filled with smiles and your night be filled with grace. *Sending love to you and everyone you love. 🥰*

Ba-dum-bum !. Good one.

Yes!

Well played, Miss. 👏👏👏

Hes stuck in the past

@@jasonraczkowski6001 Watch him on YT on the Mike Huckabee Show. Does a great Joe Biden impersonization.

Agreed! Kimmel, Fallon, Colbert, etc need to book him fir their shows immediately. It's so important for younger generations to see & hear his genius.

I remember that well and you're right. Very entertaining.

I remember that very well. It was an HBO special. Loved how he did scrooge as WC Fields and Bob Cratchit as Paul Lynde!

Agreed! Kimmel, Fallon, Colbert, etc need to book him fir their shows immediately. It's so important for younger generations to see & hear his genius.

@@amyelizabeth529 absolutely

Jim Meskimen comes to mind.

Frank Caliendo does mostly sports personalities but he is outstanding.

Kevin Spacey? Oh, nevermind.

@@nashgover2095 Yes, Jim Meskimen is as close to the talent of Rich Little of any one I know in the small impression world. A lot of his work can be found here on You tube. I often ponder how these voice artist seem to have no place to perform in the TV talk show forum of today.

@@photomanwilliams4147 Someone told me a few years ago that the reason there are fewer impressionists nowadays is that the families of the deceased celebrities they do started to demand royalties for using their "likeness" or they would sue.

Hey Richard! I’m from Macedon & my family loved Rich Little

The way Carson permanently banned scores of people from his show is a dirty little secret that has never really been highlighted in all the discussions of his legacy. Ironically it was his ban of all Hip-Hop/Rap performers from his show that ended up being his Waterloo. When unknown Arsenio Hall stepped in and provided this most popular-selling, yet banned group late night bookings, it established a strong young viewership demographic for Hall and eroded critical portions of Carson's Tonight Show demographics. NBC and Carson had battled repeatedly in contract negotiations during his tenure, but due to Carson's success, NBC would lose every time (1 3/4 hr show reduced to 1 1/2 hr, then reduced to 1 hr; Carson moving the show from NYC to Los Angeles [it's now back in NYC]; 5 live shows a week reduced to 4 live and guest host, then reduced to 3 live and 2 reruns; Carson paid vacation expanded to 15 weeks/yr while his salary exploded to an unheard of $25 million/yr; total production ownership of 'Tonight' including all Carson episodes since his 1962 arrival transferred to Carson in his 1980 contract; etc, etc). Carson's drop in audience share from 40% to less than 20% and declining by 1990 gave NBC Executives their first solid opening to once and for all get rid of their thorny legal adversary Carson, and pivot to a more demographically younger and less legally formidable host. In 1990-91, NBC Executives accomplished the task by systematically leaking a series of clandestine rumors to major news outlets and trade papers (Variety, The Hollywood Reporter) that Johnny Carson was planning to retire soon. Carson (and Ed McMahon) would vehemently deny and mock the reports in nightly Tonight Show monologues, but NBC's drip...drip rumor campaign was steady and relentless. Carson's retirement rumors began to gained credibility - despite his denials - and the sheer avalanche of their growth eventually forced him to capitulate and establish a retirement date with NBC. It all played out before your eyes in nightly Tonight Show monologues during the 1990-92 period. Once Carson finally capitulated on air, NBC Executives made sure he was given the red carpet exit treatment - but none of Carson's team appreciated the way they were forced out before they wanted to leave. Ed McMahon made an appearance on Arsenio Hall's show within a week of leaving "Tonight" and Doc Severinsen followed shortly afterwards - neither had any love for NBC or new host Jay Leno. NBC Executives were so smooth in how they forced Carson out that even to this day, most Americans have no clue that it was even done; they would swear to you Carson "voluntarily retired" of his own volition. After decades of Carson using his grip over his 40% audience share to ring concession after concession from NBC, his dwindling 16% audience share of mostly older Americans by 1992 opened him to removal. NBC botched every negotiation with Carson over a 30 year stretch, except the final one - when they moved to force him out. The Carson downfall makes for an excellent Harvard case study. In "Pacific Overtures," Stephen Sondheim referenced a line from Haiku poetry that states "The blossom falls on the mountain; the mountain falls on the blossom; all things fall." Absolute power not only can corrupt, but it can often blind you to potential dangers. With a level of comfort from his total ownership and control over "Tonight," and no visible challenger for his Late Night crown, Carson became too intransigent with tastes outside his own personal palate, setting himself up for someone to come along and fill the void. Its a lesson learned that anybody can be brought down if they take their eye off the ball, even when their seemingly holding all the aces. It happened to a beloved national icon and institution like Carson, so it can happen anybody.

@@waldolydecker8118 He really was a strange guy. Didn’t know he banned hip-hop/rap either. Thanks for posting. It is an interesting history lesson and cautionary tale.

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Played the clubs.

My thoughts exactly.

You really should go. Took my mother to Vegas to see him at the Tropicana in October 2015. Your party can have their picture taken on the red carpet before you go in. It was a very good show. My mother has since passed away, but I have the photo and the memory of our visit will live on.

I remember The Kopycats. It wasn't on very long. Besides Rich Little, it also started Frank Gorshin, George Kirby & Fred Travelina.

You're right. We usually only hear about the old entertainers when they pass away. I grew up watching Rich Little on US TV and didn't even know he was still alive until seeing this show. We didn't get alot of UK Comedians on TV back then, except for Benny Hill, but my parents wouldn't let us watch him, because they thought it was a dirty show. We were just kids back then and didn't know about sex, and I can remember asking my parents why he was chasing women around and trying to lift up their skirts? Looking back, that probably wasn't an appropriate show for children to be watching. It seems like most of the entertainers from the UK that were famous in the US back then, were singers.