![]() “He is actually one of the nicest people you'll meet,” Dateline executive producer Liz Cole told BuzzFeed News. Dateline executive producer David Corvo said maybe Morrison’s “a little embarrassed” by the attention. Morrison said he’s “not complaining” about the imitation, though he stammered and trailed off when the subject turned to himself. How does Morrison feel about his unexpected celebrity - and how has it affected his Dateline interviews?īill Hader’s famous caricature of Morrison on Saturday Night Live presents the silver-haired correspondent as a gleeful ghoul, a modern-day true crime equivalent of horror host Vincent Price. Long before the massive popularity of other true crime shows like Making a Murderer, The Keepers, and Serial, Dateline - celebrating its 25th anniversary this year - was already must-see TV for armchair detectives.īuzzFeed News caught up with Morrison and some of the show’s other mainstays to uncover what makes up the perfect Dateline formula, how to interview people about the worst day of their life, the surprising cooperation of law enforcement, and the tricks Dateline uses behind the scenes to maintain suspense throughout an episode. When it premiered in March 1992 with co-anchors Stone Phillips and Jane Pauley, the show was originally a newsmagazine it’s since evolved to focus predominantly on real-life murder mysteries. ![]() “Eventually, I think anybody who’s in this line of work for a period of time.we are probably better off making fun of ourselves than we are taking ourselves too seriously.”Īnd maybe that, aside from the SNL parodies and memes and tributes and celebrity fandoms and even voicing a traffic app, is why Keith Morrison has made Dateline so compelling. … Suppose I’ve built up over the years strange quirks that for some reason are familiar to people,” Morrison told BuzzFeed News this May about his metamorphosis from hard newsman to noir-style narrator. Whether he is cocking his head like a curious bird during interviews to express skepticism of a suspect’s dubious story or leaning with his arms crossed against, well, anything, the show has made him a cult icon. Now we know that Morrison simply wants to look relaxed.Famed Dateline correspondent Keith Morrison has a dramatic delivery that hearkens back to old-time radio mystery shows. “It just became a thing.”Īctor Dax Shepard recently told People magazine that he loves “Dateline NBC” because of Morrison’s “ability to lean on almost any surface (barbed wire, fire, wind), his high-octane brand of empathy and his spot-on eye for pairing any environment with the perfect leather jacket.” “Whenever I’ve had to do a standup, I figured the best thing to do, is to look relaxed and not look too excitable on camera, so I just lean on something,” Morrison said. Then you see when people are kind of waiving their arms around while they’re talking to you with their hands,” Morrison said. They start at one place and walk, walk, walk while they’re talking to you. “If you watch, you’ll see people walking. If you’re reading a little bit of copy and talking into a camera, I suppose, to tell part of the story you can’t cover with video or insert yourself in them somehow, I’ve never been too fond of to be honest,” Morrison said. “If you watch TV news for any length of time … a reporter appearing in a story is called a standup. We pressed Morrison for more information on how this all started. “How it became a thing? I don’t know,” Morrison told TheWrap.Īlso Read: 'Dateline NBC's' Keith Morrison Had to Be 'Dragged Into' True-Crime Storytelling (Exclusive) ![]() The bio states, “If you’re watching ‘Dateline’ right now, chances are high that Keith Morrison is leaning on something.” Morrison’s habit also has a Facebook page and had been discussed in various Reddit threads. Morrison leans on so many things that there is an Instagram page dedicated to it. “Dateline NBC” correspondent Keith Morrison has built up a cult-hero fanbase of loyal true crime fans, but they all seem to have one question: Why is he always leaning on something?
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