Tom snyder was a true broadcaster through and through. You can tell he was so passionate about what he did while always being so humble about it at the same time. A legend in American TV.
My Dad used to listen to Larry King's radio show in his truck. I guess I've loved interviewers like King, Costas and Snyder ever since. They are timeless.
Dan Ackroyd doing Tom Snyder was the funniest thing I’ve ever seen on SNL . Smoke all over - trying to hide the guest identity just slayed me . This is 2022 ,and I’ve tried to see if I could find on TH-cam or whatever . It’s nowhere to be found . I was saddened to hear Tom passed, and he only lived about twenty miles from where I live .
No he didn't. You want proof? Alrighty...Listen back to the list of SNL's "Original" cast he said he interviewed...He mentions Bill (as in Bill Murray) as one people he interviewed. That's a LIE. You can watch that interview here on TH-cam. Go check it out. Bill wasn't a member of the "Original" cast, he replaced Chevy Chase after Chevy left the show. Also, Tom Out Of Touch Snyder didn't mention Dan (as in Dan Aykroyd).
TS: "...a lot of it was pretty good television, too." Darn right, Mr. Snyder and, an everlasting thank-you, for it. I'm so happy that quite a few tapings are showing up, on TH-cam.
Shows like 'Late Night with David Letterman' and 'Later with Bob Costas' are why I failed grade 12 math. Too many nights up until 2am watching these great shows.
I always loved Tom's stories at the beginning of each *Tomorrow* show: "I was walking down 5th Avenue on this very gorgeous summer afternoon with my line producer, Marvin Katz, and who should I see coming my way, but the very fine actor, Mr. Wilford Brimley. You remember him, the Quaker Oats guy..............." Snyder told a story about coming across a homeless person in NYC who was selling what appeared to be old, vintage American coins for $100. Tom bought them and felt bad, thinking he took advantage of the poor guy. That was until Snyder took them to a New York City coin dealer and found out they were worthless.
I really miss good old T.S. A great broadcaster. "Sit back, relax, fire up a color-tini, and watch the pictures as they fly through the air." Snyder was different than other late night hosts, most were comics, but his background was as a news anchor. Nevertheless, he was a funny guy and an excellent storyteller.
One of the crew that worked for Tom Snyder told a story one day in Tom's office Tom said "John, I'm going to jam this screwdriver into this battery" and there was nothing anyone could say to stop Tom from doing exactly that.
I’d only get to see him in the summer when I was out of school and could HOPEFULLY stay awake till 1am, and that was IF there was somebody I wanted see on there. How naive I was!!
@@tomwho8696 Thanks! That was hilarious. Like two kids arguing. I saw Howard’s TV show in New York in the early 90s. The episode I happened to catch was a quiz show with two homeless contestants. The grand prize was a shopping cart full of aluminum cans. I admit I laughed because it was so outrageous and transgressive. Of course it was exploitative, but the contestants seemed genuinely happy to be on TV. Howard doesn’t appear to have changed much over the years. It’s funny to see him playing with Tom, but I give Tom credit for trying to keep the interview going. Howard can’t lose - the more outrageous he is, the better the publicity and appeal to his audience. If he acts ‘normal’ for a couple minutes, then he’s relatable. It’s also interesting to see how driven Howard is - focused on hawking his CDs, and brash about expanding to LA and other markets outside NY, Philly, and DC. I later moved to LA, and would listen to Howard’s show in traffic (just as he talks about), along with the Tim Conway Jr. Show. Howard’s fan base is extremely loyal. My favorite part is when the interview’s over and Tom storms away, waving Howard off, and Howard gleefully keeps waving his CDs before the cameras like a 12-year old kid just to eek out a few more seconds of exposure.
. You didn't have to love the guy, but there's NO denying Tom Snyder was one of the most interesting people on late night TV in the 1970's !! What was great about Tomorrow (Tom Snyder's show), was the fact that on those nights when he had boring guests, it VERY rarely ended up being a boring show because Tom Snyder was SO talented, and SO interesting himself........which (usually) meant there was going to be SOMETHING worth watching every single night, even if his guests were a complete snoozefest...... .
I enjoyed this overview IMMENSELY, Don Giller!!! I listened to BOTH of these guys, and got hooked on both styles. Is there ANYPLACE on the internet, which has a catalog of all the Mutual Broadcasting with Larry King, and ABC Radio with Tom Snyder? I'd love to just sit back and listen to all these "Time Capsules" again, as they were both entertaining and interesting to the MAX! Don, do you have a resource to where a person could find and maybe download these great shows? Thanks alot for the upload!
A lot of what he didn't like about the way talk TV and TV generally was headed really resonated with me. I think it's gotten worse that even he could have imagined. There are things I love about internet, I'm on it right now and this is so cool to watch, but man, there are some things I really miss about the analog world, and Tom Snyder is one of them. He was and is one of those guys you can both make fun of and totally love at the same time. Jerry Seinfeld says the secret of TV was that a show has to feel like a place people want to be, a place they want to hang out in, and the Tomorrow show set, the way he talked, the whole vibe of the show was one of those "places". I'll never forget the night he had Johnny Rotten and another guy from the Sex Pistols on talking about Public Image Limited. They were acting like total dicks, circumventing all Tom's questions, deliberately misunderstanding whatever Tom said, it was both funny and really rude. Tom was struggling to reach them and at one point he pulled out a cigarette and Rotten says, "I'll have one of those..." And Tom says, as he hands him a cig, "I'll find a way to your heart yet buddy..." or something very close to that. I loved the whole thing. Tom never did reach them directly but the audience got a very good sense of what PIL was about so I'd have to call the interview a success. At the end, he was talking to the camera and crew and said at one point, after summing up the tiny amount of direct information that the guys had actually imparted, "Never again..." and I think he tossed the card that had their info on it into the darkness around him. Classic!
Thanks again Don. Man I love Tom Snyder. I must admit I watched the new Letterman show on Netflix where he interviewed Barack Obama and thought as much as Letterman wanted to be Johnny Carson, isn’t it amazing how he has pretty much become the new Tom Snyder!
Later with Bob Costas had some things in common with Snyder's Tomorrow Show and his Late Late Show. Both had no band, no studio audience and meaningful conversations. It's interesting how Snyder said that his one fear was a studio audience (which they tried for awhile on Tomorrow if I'm not mistaken).
Yes, I despise studio audiences for all the reasons be shared. Unless the guest is "doing their act", silent, intimate environments are best. You are a fly on the wall; not a fly nailed to the wall.
I remember watching it when it aired. It was very interesting because Tom just let Fred Rogers go into character with his hand puppet and it was mesmerizing. They used about 10 seconds in the Rogers documentary and it made Tom look ba to those who didn't know him and hadn't seen the whole interview.
Since it says Chip Brienza (the prank caller guy banging the pot) is an actor, I just looked him up, and it turns out he has a classical music radio show on WETA
Not sure when the Costas interview was actually taped, but watching him name the SNL cast at 16:20 made me realize that this aired 4 days after Gilda Radner died.
What's the story with Tom kissing the lady on his show. She says "now that I'm part of the family" were they married, or was that some other kind of family she meant?
Dimitri Korsakov That was Nancy Friday, she was a sex therapist and frequent guest who was with him on the last Tomorrow show in 1981, Bob mentions that show in part one of his interview
Tom made a mistake while listing the first names of the Not Ready for Prime Time Players who he interviewed prior to the launch of SNL. He forgot Dan (Aykroyd), but included Bill (Murray), who was not part of the first season cast.
I'm not asking about "interest" and "political screeds"...I saw that when it originally aired and had some nostalgic remarks. People don't see "Comments Are Disabled" until they've thought of something they want to say and start to scroll down. That's presumptuous as hell.
Don Giller Thanks for doing that! I had to close comments on my "Jane Fonda on Dick Cavett" video because of crap like that. Since deleted everything from the channel.
Tom snyder was a true broadcaster through and through. You can tell he was so passionate about what he did while always being so humble about it at the same time. A legend in American TV.
My Dad used to listen to Larry King's radio show in his truck. I guess I've loved interviewers like King, Costas and Snyder ever since. They are timeless.
Well said. ❤
T.S. was simply terrific. A true Gentleman, Pro and genuine Television Star. Bob Costas is great too!
Dan Ackroyd doing Tom Snyder was the funniest thing I’ve ever seen on SNL . Smoke all over - trying to hide the guest identity just slayed me . This is 2022 ,and I’ve tried to see if I could find on TH-cam or whatever . It’s nowhere to be found . I was saddened to hear Tom passed, and he only lived about twenty miles from where I live .
I always appreciated Tom Snyder’s genuineness, frankness, and occasional awkwardness.
Very well said. ❤
Tom had an intense interest in his guests and the art of conversation. He also had an incredible sense of humor and his frankness was so welcomed.
No he didn't. You want proof? Alrighty...Listen back to the list of SNL's "Original" cast he said he interviewed...He mentions Bill (as in Bill Murray) as one people he interviewed. That's a LIE. You can watch that interview here on TH-cam. Go check it out. Bill wasn't a member of the "Original" cast, he replaced Chevy Chase after Chevy left the show. Also, Tom Out Of Touch Snyder didn't mention Dan (as in Dan Aykroyd).
TS: "...a lot of it was pretty good television, too." Darn right, Mr. Snyder and, an everlasting thank-you, for it. I'm so happy that quite a few tapings are showing up, on TH-cam.
T.S. was always terrific and especially here as this sort of ushered in the Renaissance of Tom's next Big Era. Bob was great too. Thanks for posting.
Shows like 'Late Night with David Letterman' and 'Later with Bob Costas' are why I failed grade 12 math. Too many nights up until 2am watching these great shows.
Don't worry, grade 12 math isn't useful.
I always loved Tom's stories at the beginning of each *Tomorrow* show: "I was walking down 5th Avenue on this very gorgeous summer afternoon with my line producer, Marvin Katz, and who should I see coming my way, but the very fine actor, Mr. Wilford Brimley. You remember him, the Quaker Oats guy..............."
Snyder told a story about coming across a homeless person in NYC who was selling what appeared to be old, vintage American coins for $100. Tom bought them and felt bad, thinking he took advantage of the poor guy. That was until Snyder took them to a New York City coin dealer and found out they were worthless.
He was an amazing guy. Genuine class.
Tom Snyder and Bob Costas. Excellent interviewers. Very professional. Very genuine. They do their homework before they interview guest.
Tom didn't. Go watch the interview he did with Johnny Lydon (Rotten).
I really miss good old T.S. A great broadcaster. "Sit back, relax, fire up a color-tini, and watch the pictures as they fly through the air." Snyder was different than other late night hosts, most were comics, but his background was as a news anchor. Nevertheless, he was a funny guy and an excellent storyteller.
When was he "Funny"?
@@JohnJohnson-mo4bn He was not a comic but I thought he had some humorous observations sometimes.
@@JohnJohnson-mo4bn one wonders when you've ever been.
@@JohnJohnson-mo4bn Tomorrow Show, CNBC SHOW, Late, Late Show... idiot
One of the crew that worked for Tom Snyder told a story one day in Tom's office Tom said "John, I'm going to jam this screwdriver into this battery" and there was nothing anyone could say to stop Tom from doing exactly that.
Boy I would watch that Tomorrow Show, I was a young teen and had school the next day but that wouldn't stop me from seeing Tom.
I’d only get to see him in the summer when I was out of school and could HOPEFULLY stay awake till 1am, and that was IF there was somebody I wanted see on there. How naive I was!!
Ditto. I used to watch it in grade school.
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Thanks! That was hilarious. Like two kids arguing.
I saw Howard’s TV show in New York in the early 90s. The episode I happened to catch was a quiz show with two homeless contestants. The grand prize was a shopping cart full of aluminum cans. I admit I laughed because it was so outrageous and transgressive. Of course it was exploitative, but the contestants seemed genuinely happy to be on TV.
Howard doesn’t appear to have changed much over the years. It’s funny to see him playing with Tom, but I give Tom credit for trying to keep the interview going. Howard can’t lose - the more outrageous he is, the better the publicity and appeal to his audience.
If he acts ‘normal’ for a couple minutes, then he’s relatable. It’s also interesting to see how driven Howard is - focused on hawking his CDs, and brash about expanding to LA and other markets outside NY, Philly, and DC.
I later moved to LA, and would listen to Howard’s show in traffic (just as he talks about), along with the Tim Conway Jr. Show. Howard’s fan base is extremely loyal.
My favorite part is when the interview’s over and Tom storms away, waving Howard off, and Howard gleefully keeps waving his CDs before the cameras like a 12-year old kid just to eek out a few more seconds of exposure.
What a man, showman, broadcaster. I miss him.
Thank you so much for adding this. I shared this on my Tom Snyder fan page on Facebook.
Cool, I have a Facebook page about Johnny Carson and one about David Letterman.
@@Rob_Kates :)
This is how I found you! Great stuff Don
Can't wait for the release of your upcoming project!
I really believe the world was a little bit better place because of Tom.
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26:20 - I guess I was 'ahead of the curve'. I bought my first VCR back in 1979 and ALWAYS had the TV audio piped through the stereo!
My two favorite Tomorrow Show guests were Hitchcock and Sterling Hayden. Two extraordinary guests.
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You didn't have to love the guy, but there's NO denying Tom Snyder was one of the most interesting people on late night TV in the 1970's !!
What was great about Tomorrow (Tom Snyder's show), was the fact that on those nights when he had boring guests, it VERY rarely ended up being a boring show because Tom Snyder was SO talented, and SO interesting himself........which (usually) meant there was going to be SOMETHING worth watching every single night, even if his guests were a complete snoozefest......
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Don, brilliant content, thanks. The ABC news footage is wild! (45:40--Tom about to propose?)
Wonderful post! I don't know how I missed this one! Love ya Donz!! Your work has been very helpful! Keep laughing sir!
I loved watching Tom.
This is outstanding! A record that showed that this now gone era existed in late night radio. Thanks, Don.
Performance art, "talk wrestling" is a good description of most talking heads on the "news."
Miss you, Tom
Miss you, Bob
Bob Costas rockin' the Alex P. Keaton look.
I enjoyed this overview IMMENSELY, Don Giller!!! I listened to BOTH of these guys, and got hooked on both styles. Is there ANYPLACE on the internet, which has a catalog of all the Mutual Broadcasting with Larry King, and ABC Radio with Tom Snyder?
I'd love to just sit back and listen to all these "Time Capsules" again, as they were both entertaining and interesting to the MAX!
Don, do you have a resource to where a person could find and maybe download these great shows?
Thanks alot for the upload!
The only radio clips I know of are those I’ve found on the TH-cams. Except for Dave’s prank calls, which I got elsewhere.
A lot of what he didn't like about the way talk TV and TV generally was headed really resonated with me. I think it's gotten worse that even he could have imagined. There are things I love about internet, I'm on it right now and this is so cool to watch, but man, there are some things I really miss about the analog world, and Tom Snyder is one of them. He was and is one of those guys you can both make fun of and totally love at the same time. Jerry Seinfeld says the secret of TV was that a show has to feel like a place people want to be, a place they want to hang out in, and the Tomorrow show set, the way he talked, the whole vibe of the show was one of those "places". I'll never forget the night he had Johnny Rotten and another guy from the Sex Pistols on talking about Public Image Limited. They were acting like total dicks, circumventing all Tom's questions, deliberately misunderstanding whatever Tom said, it was both funny and really rude. Tom was struggling to reach them and at one point he pulled out a cigarette and Rotten says, "I'll have one of those..." And Tom says, as he hands him a cig, "I'll find a way to your heart yet buddy..." or something very close to that. I loved the whole thing. Tom never did reach them directly but the audience got a very good sense of what PIL was about so I'd have to call the interview a success. At the end, he was talking to the camera and crew and said at one point, after summing up the tiny amount of direct information that the guys had actually imparted, "Never again..." and I think he tossed the card that had their info on it into the darkness around him. Classic!
21:27 - What a wonderful human being. Thank you for sharing this upload.
Thanks again Don. Man I love Tom Snyder. I must admit I watched the new Letterman show on Netflix where he interviewed Barack Obama and thought as much as Letterman wanted to be Johnny Carson, isn’t it amazing how he has pretty much become the new Tom Snyder!
One of my college classmates noted that he liked to "get high and watch Tom Snyder's eyebrows go up and down."
I miss Tom.
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How could Tom not mention his interview with John Lennon . It was great …
As uncomfortable as TS said he was, he was one of the most intriguing guests any talk show could have. He was always
real, not a concoction.
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❤️❤️
Later with Bob Costas had some things in common with Snyder's Tomorrow Show and his Late Late Show. Both had no band, no studio audience and meaningful conversations. It's interesting how Snyder said that his one fear was a studio audience (which they tried for awhile on Tomorrow if I'm not mistaken).
They did, from 9/6/80 to the end on 12/17/81. Added Rona Barrett, changed the title to "Tomorrow Coast to Coast".
Yes, I despise studio audiences for all the reasons be shared. Unless the guest is "doing their act", silent, intimate environments are best. You are a fly on the wall; not a fly nailed to the wall.
I adore and MISS Tom Snyder SO VERY MUCH! 😢😢😢
Would love to see the full Tom Snyder interview with Mr. Rogers. Can't find it anywhere.
I remember watching it when it aired. It was very interesting because Tom just let Fred Rogers go into character with his hand puppet and it was mesmerizing. They used about 10 seconds in the Rogers documentary and it made Tom look ba to those who didn't know him and hadn't seen the whole interview.
Since it says Chip Brienza (the prank caller guy banging the pot) is an actor, I just looked him up, and it turns out he has a classical music radio show on WETA
Not sure when the Costas interview was actually taped, but watching him name the SNL cast at 16:20 made me realize that this aired 4 days after Gilda Radner died.
2 Of The Best!!!
I actually pity anyone who never heard Larry King on the radio in his heyday
Tom is the best
Tom Snyder was the best.
Tom was so much fun and all of his shows authentic.
Television interview shows are more real without a studio audience, less pressure to always come up with a quick one liner
Always a big fan of Tom Snyder
Love me some Tom.
I remember first seeing The Roches on “Tomorrow,” but I can’t figure out what year that was and where I was when I saw it. Some hotel room.
Ugh. Roaches in a motel room. I know you didn't mean it that way, but.....yuck.
40:23 - Here, Tom looks like Rod Serling!
Today's late night hosts couldn't shine Tom's shoes.
What's the story with Tom kissing the lady on his show. She says "now that I'm part of the family" were they married, or was that some other kind of family she meant?
Dimitri Korsakov That was Nancy Friday, she was a sex therapist and frequent guest who was with him on the last Tomorrow show in 1981, Bob mentions that show in part one of his interview
Nancy Friday, an author specializing in sex topics, became a recurrent contributor to TCTC in its final year.
Dan, not Bill!
Tom made a mistake while listing the first names of the Not Ready for Prime Time Players who he interviewed prior to the launch of SNL. He forgot Dan (Aykroyd), but included Bill (Murray), who was not part of the first season cast.
Bob Costas is the only great interviewer working today.
Tom Snyder is god.
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For Christ's sake stop bleeping
words. lol
Not my doing,
@@dongiller Yeah, I figures it was the original broadcast that was responsible for the bleeps. Either way, enjoy the channel
Keep up the good work.
You need to let people comment on your "Trump On Letterman", come what may.
Then again, no, I don't. I have zero interest allowing my comments sections being overrun with political screeds.
I'm not asking about "interest" and "political screeds"...I saw that when it originally aired and had some nostalgic remarks. People don't see "Comments Are Disabled" until they've thought of something they want to say and start to scroll down. That's presumptuous as hell.
Learn to live with disappointment.
re "presumptuous": history proves otherwise.
Don Giller Thanks for doing that! I had to close comments on my "Jane Fonda on Dick Cavett" video because of crap like that. Since deleted everything from the channel.
I was too young to watch Snyder on TOMORROW, but I loved his cable show and LATE LATE SHOW.
I miss the old days of Snyder giving good talk before bed. Even if it was 20 minutes it was usually a good time.
Whatever happened to Mary Ann?