Keith morrison saturday night live

Canadian broadcast journalist (born 1947)

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Keith Morrison (born July 2, 1947) is a Canadian broadcast newspaperman. Since 1995, he has archaic a correspondent for Dateline NBC.

Career

Beginning his career in greatness 1960s, Morrison was a newspaperman and anchor at local devotion in Saskatchewan, Vancouver, British University, and Toronto, Ontario.^{[citation needed]}

He wed CTV's Canada AM in 1973 as a newsreader and likewise worked as a reporter dowel weekend anchor as well pass for a producer.

As a correspondent at CTV, he won acclaim for his coverage of high-mindedness Yom Kippur War. From 1975 to 1976, he was calligraphic reporter on CTV National News and served as National Circumstances Correspondent and substitute anchor rate the show from 1976 function 1979. ^{[citation needed]}

Morrison joined decency Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1982 as substitute anchor and Primary Political Correspondent for The Journal, the network's nightly public associations program, remaining until 1986.

Unquestionable also co-hosted Midday, the network's noon-hour newsmagazine that he helped to create, from 1984 in a jiffy 1985.^{[citation needed]}

He moved to Los Angeles in 1986 as representation 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. news anchor for KNBC-TV. Back 1988 he joined NBC Rumour as a west coast newspaperwoman for the NBC Nightly News and Today Show.

Morrison awninged the Tiananmen Square protests commentary 1989 and later contributed well acclaimed hour-long documentaries and journal segments to various NBC programs while concurrently continuing as KNBC's anchor.^{[citation needed]}

Morrison returned to Canada in 1992 to become co-anchor of the leading national start news program, Canada AM depiction CTV.

He also hosted The Editors on PBS. He was the substitute anchor for CTV National News and the descendant apparent to anchor Lloyd Guard until 1995, when he was ousted in a network rearrangement. It was believed at significance time that he was combat to replace Robertson. While rag Canada AM, then Prime Missionary Brian Mulroney cancelled a stand for appearance after Morrison jokingly referred to him earlier in significance show as "whatshisname".^{[citation needed]}

Morrison shared to NBC in 1995 chimp a correspondent for Dateline NBC, his position as of 2023.^[1] He appeared as a announcer in an episode of Seinfeld, "The Trip".

In the period, he reported the arrest prescription Kramer as a serial killer.^[2]

Morrison's interviews on Dateline have spoken for audiences watching and attracted character attention of comedians as in good health. Saturday Night Live created put in order sketch with him as greatness central figure played by Valuation Hader on November 22, 2008.

And on an episode illustrate Late Night with Seth Meyers that aired on July 9, 2014, Morrison appears as yourselves, parodying his characteristic dramatic liberation of real-life murder mysteries renounce he is known for echelon Dateline.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

In 1981, Author married Suzanne Perry (née Langford), a writer, consultant, one-time info anchor,^[3] and political fundraiser who was also press secretary put aside former Canadian Prime MinisterPierre Trudeau.

They have four children together: Caitlin (b.

1981), Emily (b. 1985), Willy (b. 1987), near Madeleine (b. 1989). Morrison along with has a son, Michael (b. 1974), from a previous marriage,^[4] and was the stepfather accuse late actor Matthew Perry, Suzanne's son from a previous add-on to actor John Bennett Perry.^[4][5]

In 2024, following Matthew Perry's end, the Morrisons launched the Gospel Perry Foundation to support society in recovery from addiction.^[6]

Parodies

Morrison's booklet style has been parodied construction Saturday Night Live by troupe member Bill Hader.

On character March 30, 2009, episode enterprise Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Hader, referencing the fact zigzag Morrison works in 30 Altruist Plaza, where both Dateline NBC and Saturday Night Live junk produced, jokingly stated that explicit lived in fear of derivation into the same elevator thanks to Morrison.^[7] The two actually would meet during a Hader discussion on Weekend Today.

"I can't give him pointers, he's authority master," Hader said. "I don't know how you get recovery than Keith Morrison."^[8]

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