Rich Little hosted the remake of a lesser-known write-in show You Asked For It! where they'd go do stuff that viewers wrote in to request. Rich, being the host, would always find time once or twice in the show to do one of his impressions -- like his Ronald Reagan ("Well, there you go again...") or Richard Nixon or ma'am, just one more question, his Columbo. I must've been about six, maybe seven when this was on the air. And watching Rich Little do his thing made me want to become a voice impersonator myself, so I became one.
Thing was, the only impersonation I could do was, in fact, Rich Little. "Hi, I'm Rich Little... and welcome to You Asked For It!" It got kinda tiresome after a while to my family, actually. Much like the time I kept telling them the Boy Scout jokes in the back of Boys' Life without much context. "So these three Webelos scouts were at Philmont when one forgot his neckerchief, see, and -- no, wait, I got that one wrong, you weren't supposed to know he forgot his neckerchief until the end..."
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Thing was, the only impersonation I could do was, in fact, Rich Little. "Hi, I'm Rich Little... and welcome to You Asked For It!" It got kinda tiresome after a while to my family, actually. Much like the time I kept telling them the Boy Scout jokes in the back of Boys' Life without much context. "So these three Webelos scouts were at Philmont when one forgot his neckerchief, see, and -- no, wait, I got that one wrong, you weren't supposed to know he forgot his neckerchief until the end..."