Perkins, a former NBC News reporter, hosted the A&E series from 1994 to 1999. He also won a local Emmy Award in 1985 while working for Los Angeles' KNBC for a commentary criticizing parent company NBC for allowing Saturday Night Live to joke about drug abuse. Darrell Hammond would later portray him on SNL.
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