Sundays With Snyder - Number 27

This 50 minute clip (actually two "Nightside" segments pasted together) answers some fundamental questions.

Would life truly be better if:

• Frank Fontaine was still imitating disabled people for laughs?
• TV characters occasionally announced they were leaving to use the bathroom?
• We stopped making fun of truly ignorant, truly arrogant people who choose politics as their career?
• Better if we sterilized our 16-year-olds? 
• Better if Paul Simon stopped writing anti-christian songs that agitated the lunatic fringe? 
• Better if ZipLoc bags were easier to use? 
• Better if TV earthquake movies were more easily comprehensible to the blind? 
• Better if retailers didn't project the "worst holiday season ever," like clockwork every Thanksgiving?
• Better if Eve Arden were still with us? If Presidents made mistakes?

Remember: if our money becomes worthless... their investment becomes worth even more, because they could take the money they saved and put in in an envelope and forget about it until morning, when they would open it up to see what their share of the national debt would be.

Touche. Right On.

Sad to say, this could be the last TS post for awhile. If I find another horde of tapes, you can bet I'll put them up here. But I may be indisposed for a few weeks and in no condition to go horde-hunting. Until then - sleep tight, America.



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Sundays With Snyder - Number 26

A fascinating hour with Tim Phelps, one of the authors of Capitol Game, all about the Anita Hill - Clarence Thomas scandal which almost precluded Thomas's ascent to the Supreme Court. The interview is complete, and is followed by a partial hour of open phones.




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Sundays With Snyder - Number 25

Tuesday Jan 21, 1992.

In 1970, attorneys Linda Coffee and Sarah Weddington filed suit in a U.S. District Court in Texas on behalf of Norma L. McCorvey (under the alias Jane Roe). This broadcast of The Tom Snyder Show features Sarah Weddington as the 20th anniversary of the still-controversial decision that legalized abortion approached. The story of McCorvey, who interrupted the confirmation hearing of Sonia Sotomayor as as part of an anti-abortion protest, is sad and startling.

In the second hour, actor Alan Rachins (L.A. Law) is interviewed (The recording ends slightly before the conclusion of the interview).



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Chris Elliottt Does Jay Leno On David Letterman

The post before this one has a Bob Elliott appearance on David Letterman. Bob Elliott occasionally did a pretty passable Peter Lorre impression - so here's a great clip of Bob's son Chris attempting to imitate another famous horror icon: Jay Leno.

The Right Honorable Bob and Ray

Here's the audio from a 70's appearance on David Letterman's Late Night NBC series. Letterman mentions their recent Carnegie Hall appearances. I was at one of those shows and remember being stunned by the applause that greeted obscure character names. "With me is Dr. Daryl Dexter," Ray would say, and the audience would burst into wild applause... knowing full well that Dr. Daryl Dexter was "The Komodo Dragon Expert."



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