Tom Snyder passes away
 

Don't think it's been posted (I did a search).
Saw it on the CNN ticker. Evidently he had been battling Leukemia for awhile.
I was a fan and have been surfing around some of his old videos on youtube for a few minutes.

After all the chat in a different thread about how sucky late-night talk-shows are these days his passing reminds me of how much I enjoyed his cheesy ignorance a lot of the time and just how watchable his show was I thought.
He never tried to do too much with it ...meaning he didn't even seem to prepare very much for his show a lot of the time.

For those who don't know, he did the 'Tomorrow' show on NBC late-night in the 70's and early 80's which was after the Tonight Show.
Often-times having very little clue about the punk-rocker or other guests he was interviewing like the Clash, Iggy Pop, Kiss, etc.

He then did the Late Late Show on CBS in the 90's before it was taken over by Craig Kilborn and than Craig Ferguson.

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Craig Kilborn and than Craig Ferguson.

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This is where I stopped reading.

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Craig Kilborn and than Craig Ferguson.

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so you stopped two words before finishing?

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lol, MicroBob is old.

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I remember him from his years with Twisted Sister.

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His interview with Charles Manson was an all-time classic.

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That's Dee Snyder......or am I being leveled?? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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That's Dee Snyder......or am I being leveled?? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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Same guy. Stage name. Look it up.

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Craig Kilborn and than Craig Ferguson.

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so you stopped two words before finishing?

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Lol. The dude's a maroon.

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Heh. If you have to ask...

Actually I think Boro was going for straight up funny as the line was a little to obvious for leveling. But if you want to consider yourself leveled that's cool too.

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wow. I screwed up than vs then and THAN forgot to correct it.
OMGZZZ I just did it againzzzzz!!!!!!

In other news, I just commented on some poster who referred to the "authers" of the new no-limit book so it's all part of the LOL Grammarments!! karma universe I guess.


Ron Burgandy - I'm only 36. I actually don't remember the old Tom Snyder Tomorrow show of the 70's but have seen clips. I liked his show from the 90's and it was THEN that I learned he did the other show way back then.

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I used to watch him on his later show. He had a couple of classic talk show moments. I remember seeing the old show when he had Meatloaf on the show just as Bat Out Of Hell became big. Tom had no clue. He goes, "And now my next guest..... Meatball." And I think he called him Meatball for about half the interview.

Also, on the later show he once had Shatner, going on about his horseriding, his shows, and just being his usual blowhard self. At the end of the interview Tom goes, "I'll bring out my next guest as soon we check to see if there is enough air in the room now that Shatner's gone."

Too bad he's gone, I always thought he was pretty good.

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Wow I'm deeply saddened by this. I used to love seeing him on late night and missed him when his show was replaced.

On a weird note, both he and Tom Walsh died from leukemia, Walsh passed away this afternoon.

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Bizarre, but probably great. Miserable Lydon with a guffawing Snyder has to be a must see.

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/2...ithtomsqw9.jpg


Amazon.com
"May I say, Kim," Tom Snyder says to a heavily made-up Kim Fowley, "You look ridiculous tonight." So begins one of late night television's more bizarre interviews. Spanning the musically volatile years from 1977-1981, these eight Tomorrow Show episodes all focus on the burgeoning punk/new wave movement. To his credit, Snyder doesn't pretend to like or even understand it, but nor does he criticize (although he does chuckle on occasion). Mostly, he lets the musicians speak for themselves and play a few tunes. All the while, he looks thoroughly bemused, comfortably enveloped in a nimbus cloud of cigarette smoke--along with a few of his guests, like a soft-spoken Paul Weller (the Jam) and surly John Lydon (Public Image Limited). Other participants include Elvis Costello, Iggy Pop, the Plasmatics, the Ramones, Patti Smith, and Joan Jett (circa the Runaways, who were produced by Fowley). Smith, Jett, and Lydon, joined by PiL band mate Keith Levene, do not perform. The rest do. The Plasmatics make the most of the opportunity with "Master Plan," during which Wendy O. Williams spray-paints, smashes the windows, and then blows up a car. Other notable numbers include Pop's "Five Foot One" and the Jam's "Pretty Green." Because these programs are shown in their entirety, several non-musical guests, like Frank Capra and Ricky Schroeder, also put in appearances (and to Joey Ramone's chagrin, Kelly Lang is the fill-in for Snyder during the Ramones segment). --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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LOL

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I'm 28 and know who Tom Snyder is. He's that guy who had a show that got taken over by Crain Kilborn, than years later, he died.

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Hamish - a lot of his punk-rock interviews including a 1-minute promotional spot for all of them can be found on youtube. Some pretty interesting stuff.

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If you've seen some of the SNL from back when Ackroyd was on it, he did a pretty funny Tom Snyder. Jane Curtin played his mom on one skit, and they had a painfully awkward family moment that poked fun and just how ungainly Snyder was socially.

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I seem to remember some SNL skit or some other program where the Tom Snyder impersonator was talking randomly about "do you like oreo's. Call me crazy but I just can't enough of them. Har har har." or something like that. It was so off-topic the guest was left totally confused IIRC.

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Evidently Aykroyd and others impersonated him several times on SNL.

This site lists 14 times they did Snyder.

http://snl.jt.org/imp.php?i=2340

I think this is the transcript of one of the first time he did the impersonation:

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/76/mgrastomorrow.phtml

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Yeah, he was like that. He would try to joke around with guests sometimes or be cool or whatever, but he often seemed completely devoid of social skills and self awareness. It made for an uncomfortable combo.

Watch the interview with Charles Manson if you get the chance. He was very lucky to get it, and he wastes it almost entirely by spending all his time thinking he's going to cleverly get Manson to confess his guilt. Manson is looking at him like he can't believe what a moron he is. And Snyder just keeps on spinning his wheels, oblivious, looking even kind of smug as if he can't believe how clever he is, until the hour is up. Almost a complete waste of time except to show how startlingly dumb Synder could be.

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Yep, Lydon was miserable and a terrible interview. And Snyder actually seems to get po'ed pretty fast in this train wreck interview for PIL.

Lydon on Snyder

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yeah, the manson interview was pretty famous. Part of it is on youtube as well.

Just watched him on youtube with U2 on their first U.S. TV appearance. He called them "The U2" a couple times.

"startlingly dumb" is a reasonable description of how he could get at times although I might prefer the phrase "lovably ignorant."

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Found this on Youtube...its the "Tomorrow Show" with Tom Snyder Greatest Hits. The part with Cheech and Chong near the end is hilarious.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EiSEbyhAR0k