Further signs of my advanced age

[mmcirvin]

Have few people under 40 heard of Rich Little, as this article claims? I mean, I'm under 40, though admittedly just barely. And, yeah, Rich Little is and always was kind of lame, but I remember him being all over TV not just in the 70s but well into the 80s, though toward the end of that period I think he was mostly doing Little Debbie snack cake commercials.

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[schwa242.livejournal.com]

I remember him and I'm 31. Although he's one of those people whose names has to pass through the research department in my brain that goes something like, "Wait, is that the guy who did impressions that someone at NBC wanted to host Saturday Night Live before it even premiered, or is it the guy who did Sniglets for Not Necessarily the News?"

Not that I know him well, but I've heard of him.

I think I've told this story before

[spatch]

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..."

[aderack.livejournal.com]

The name rings a bell; that's about it, though.

Man, Colbert. I guess the court jester effect is still viable. The thing is, his material wasn't even new; it was mostly recycled from The Daily Show and his own gig. This is all so interesting.

[bottlroktt.livejournal.com]

25, and i wouldn't be able to pick his face out from a lineup. i know he's known for his impressions though, and i knew this after hearing him mentioned on the haden church/shaloub show 'wings' once.

[spasmsproject.livejournal.com]

I'm 35, and I remember him vividly.

Is this really just a ploy to get people to reveal their age? ;)

[ice-hesitant.livejournal.com]

Oh, not Little Richard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Richard), pioneer of rockabilly. Okay. My excuse was that I was in the Soviet Union at the time.

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

Since you say he was "all over TV" in the 70s and 80s, right away that means I don't know who he is, since that is when I grew up, and since my parents severely limited my TV watching. Being 37, I am someone who didn't get a chance to watch TV unfettered until college, in 1988, and even then, I couldn't afford to have a TV until around 1991. So there you go.

[mezdeathhead.livejournal.com]

Hmm. He looks familiar, but the name or context doesn't really ring a bell.

That article kind of lols me, however. Sounds like they're trying to create the biggest possible gap between Colbert and this guy.

I have to confess

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

At 43, I have to push aside Paul Lynde's face in order to picture him. Of course, I'm also the one who infamously asked when Shelley Duvall became Shelley Long.