Dominick George "Don" Pardo (born February 22, 1918) is an American radio and television announcer.

Pardo was born in Westfield, Massachusetts and joined NBC as an in-house announcer in 1944, remaining on the network staff for the next 60 years. He is the last of the "lifetime" employees of NBC. His best-known announcing work is for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC (which he gave up after the 1999 telecast) and the television series Saturday Night Live; he has been with the show since it premiered in 1975, except for one season (1981-82), when it was announced by Mel Brandt. After "Live, from New York..." which is cried out at the end of the opening skit, Don Pardo names the cast members and musical guest(s) in a voice-over during the opening credits. He is famous for flubbing a line on the very first show, calling the cast "The Not For Ready Prime Time Players".

Pardo officially "retired" from NBC in 2004 and moved to Tucson. However, the producers of Saturday Night Live convinced him to continue providing the introductions for their show. In 2006, he decided to begin prerecording his announcements from a home studio in Arizona. That lasted only a few episodes before producers insisted they needed him present in Studio 8H, and he resumed flying to New York on a weekly basis to do the show. On Saturday, February 23, 2008, Pardo apperared at the closing of SNL to blow out the candles of his 90th birthday cake.

Prior to Saturday Night Live, Pardo made his mark on game shows for NBC as the booming voice of The Price is Right from 1956 until it moved to ABC in 1963. The next year, he moved over to Jeopardy!, which he announced from 1964 until the original version of the series ended in 1975. Pardo reprised that role with a cameo voiceover in "Weird Al" Yankovic's 1984 song "I Lost on Jeopardy" (a parody of the Greg Kihn Band 1983 hit song Jeopardy). He also announced numerous other New York-based NBC game shows such as Three on a Match, Winning Streak, and Jackpot! (all three of which were Bob Stewart productions).

In addition, Pardo has also been the announcer for WNBC-TV's Live at Five news program, NBC Nightly News, and Wheel of Fortune (during two special on-location weeks in 1988, when the show originated from New York).

Pardo was the on-duty live booth announcer for WNBC-TV in New York and the NBC network on November 22, 1963, and it was he who first announced to NBC viewers that President John F. Kennedy had been shot in Dallas, Texas. (His first bulletin interrupted a local WNBC-TV broadcast of "Bachelor Father" before the entire NBC network went live with the story.) Because NBC was slow to begin videotaping the assassination coverage, for decades it was believed that Pardo's historic bulletins were lost. However, almost 40 years later an audio tape of the bulletins was discovered in a private collection.

In December 1976 on one memorable SNL episode, Pardo participated in a musical performance by Frank Zappa, reciting a verse of the song "I'm The Slime." Pardo subsequently reprised this role on the live-recorded version of the song for the Zappa in New York album (it was, however, not featured on the first release in 1978, but it appears on the 1993 CD re-release). He also provided narration for the songs "The Illinois Enema Bandit" and "Punky's Whips" (an ongoing business dispute between Zappa and his then record company led to "Punky's Whips" being removed from the 1978 album, but the song was reinstated on the 1993 CD).

In 1986, Pardo contributed to the first album in TVT Records' Television's Greatest Hits series of compilations of TV-series theme songs; his voice can be heard opening and closing the album, as if it were a real TV station's broadcast day.

Pardo is still heard during the open and close of Len Berman's "Spanning the World" segments on WNBC and Today. During the 1980s and 1990s, Pardo also recorded announcements for radio stations affiliated with The Source programming service (syndicated by Westwood One). Recordings from those days are still used on some programs, such as "blank">10@10" on KFOG-FM, _San Francisco and The Bob and Tom Show.

His middle name is George because he was born on George Washington's Birthday.

In addition to being the staff announcer on Saturday Night Live he is also the staff announcer for the Live at Five news program on WNBC-TV Channel 4 in New York City.

Announcer for NBC Radio's "The Magnificent Montague" (1950-1951).

Does the opening announcement for J.P.'s "College of 97 Rock Knowledge" on 97 Rock WGRF FM, a rock radio show based in Buffalo, NY.

Has stayed on as the announcer for "Saturday Night Live" from its inception in 1975 through more than 30 turbulent years that followed, thus being the person that's been involved with the show for the longest (Lorne Michaels having left as producer for a long spell in the early 1980s).

His booth in Studio 8H during "Saturday Night Live" is located at the exact spot in which Arturo Toscanini used to conduct the NBC Symphony Orchestra on radio and later, television, from 1937 to 1950 (the concerts took place in Carnegie Hall from 1950 to 1954).

Joined NBC Radio as a staff announcer on June 15, 1944.