Get well soon for a legend

A distressing story crossed the Internet recently about announcing legend Don Pardo. Seems that Mr. Pardo, 95, has suffered that all too common injury for older people: a broken hip.

Don missed the latest episode of Saturday Night Live. That's the one gig he still keeps after a lifetime of announcing everything from game shows to soaps to Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade to hard news to Weird Al's I Lost on Jeopardy. The list of his game show credits stretches for IMDb decades, all the way back to Winner Take All in the early 1950s.

His most famous job in our genre was probably Art Fleming's Jeopardy, where Art would thank him at the top of every episode. But he's chipped in on The Price is Right, Concentration, Wheel of Fortune, Three on a Match, Winning Streak, Eye Guess and Jackpot, among others. The latest reports say that Mr. Pardo is doing well and should return to SNL. Here's hoping for a speedy recovery.