Paul Harvey passed away today at the age of 90.
Rich Hall played him on Saturday Night Live - a clip I can't find right now - and also in this 1987 Showtime special I found on Youtube.
Time Magazine's obituary talks a bit about the Rich Hall piece on SNL:
A salesman for himself and his vision of the American dream, he was also a master peddler of many products, whose makers were as loyal to Harvey as his listeners. A skit from the 1984-85 season of Saturday Night Live had Harvey (played by Rich Hall) compulsively peppering his news items with sponsor names. The man remained unapologetic. "Some days," he told Larry King in 1988, "the best news in the broadcast is the commercial. You can keep your natural teeth all your natural life! There is a glove that doesn't wear out! There is a car battery that keeps its promises! That's good news! And I would use those things on the air if they were not in the body of the commercial." The finest huckster is the one who's sold himself on the product first.
I'll keep looking.
