LeVar Burton Gets Odd Requests From "Star Trek" Fans | Late Night With Conan O'Brien

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  • (Original airdate: 01/28/97) LeVar Burton discusses his "Star Trek" VISOR, the success of "Roots," and the wild requests he receives from fans.
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Комментарии • 135

  • @DavidAlvarado-js3qq
    @DavidAlvarado-js3qq 3 года назад +65

    How about a whole generation that LOVES LeVar Burton from Reading Rainbow? I have such a deep emotional attachment to that show.

    • @MiguelJuanez
      @MiguelJuanez 3 года назад +2

      Same here brotha!

    • @penguinmaster7
      @penguinmaster7 2 года назад +2

      reading rainbow introduced me to star trek, and i fell in love with the series from then on

    • @pointysidedown
      @pointysidedown Год назад +2

      I still love hearing Levar read stories. He has a podcast where he reads all sorts of novels and short stories, Levar Burton reads I think. His voice and storytelling is so good. Maybe it's just nostalgia but he made reading cool and had such a positive influence on me. love em

    • @xaysleek4686
      @xaysleek4686 10 месяцев назад +1

      Hell yeah!!!

  • @HyperTensiveFilms
    @HyperTensiveFilms 3 года назад +33

    The funny thing is that this interview aired January 1997, a couple months after "Star Trek: First Contact" premiered where Geordi actually loses the visor and wears contacts instead.

  • @Coastfog
    @Coastfog 3 года назад +87

    LeVar is an amazing guy, he's positively influenced so many people in so many ways.

  • @philmstud2k
    @philmstud2k 3 года назад +31

    It's lucky enough to do one thing iconic. This man has Roots, Star Trek, Reading Rainbow, and directing Smart House.

  • @rendonrjr
    @rendonrjr 3 года назад +40

    Levar was fantastic on Reading Rainbow.

    • @Dulcimerist
      @Dulcimerist 3 года назад +7

      But you don't have to take my word for it. ;)

    • @dcrockafella
      @dcrockafella 3 года назад +3

      Take a look, it's in a book, a reading rainbow

  • @Ganiscol
    @Ganiscol 3 года назад +74

    LeVar Burton has fascinating eyes 🤩
    Also: Conan did not know how much he would hang out at ComicCon many years later 😅

    • @kasunlee7489
      @kasunlee7489 3 года назад +1

      His eyes grew big cuz he used to look hard thru those hard-to-see visor

    • @37thraven
      @37thraven 2 года назад

      ​@@kasunlee7489 I was wondering about that. I know he's not blind like Geordi obviously, but the way he stares wide here, and in the 'Word Up' music video, etc. made me wonder if he had mild vision issues

  • @hydroguy6927
    @hydroguy6927 3 года назад +11

    2 words for ya.. Reading Rainbow. One of my all time favs growing up as a kid.

  • @troy8738
    @troy8738 3 года назад +17

    Watching him host Jeopardy , he's been killing it

  • @khronikfourtwenty
    @khronikfourtwenty 3 года назад +21

    i wish i was levar burton!!!!!

    • @UtsavChaudhury
      @UtsavChaudhury 3 года назад +9

      Yep was waiting for this...

    • @FerCl
      @FerCl 3 года назад +6

      i wish i was lance reddick

  • @dgafffxp8263
    @dgafffxp8263 3 года назад +31

    Conan is the G.O.A.T of late night

    • @firefly8918
      @firefly8918 3 года назад +1

      Very true

    • @BAZZAROU812
      @BAZZAROU812 3 года назад +2

      The only fella thats real..

    • @rBennich
      @rBennich 3 года назад

      @@BAZZAROU812 What about Letterman?

    • @dgafffxp8263
      @dgafffxp8263 3 года назад

      Letterman is a LEGEND

    • @rBennich
      @rBennich 3 года назад +1

      @@dgafffxp8263 "...but when i say legend i mean a myth...like....the loch ness monster...or bigfoot. like...we all believe they exist, but....who ever really saw it?" - Patrice O'neal

  • @lydias2012
    @lydias2012 Год назад +1

    I am older and know him from Roots, Next Generation, and Reading Rainbow, now Picard. He is great every time.

  • @justinberdell7517
    @justinberdell7517 3 года назад +4

    I grew up in the 90s with tng and reading rainbow. Geordi la forge was and still is one of my favorite characters. Im an engineer today thanks in no small part to characters and people like that. That stuff has an impact on people

  • @JohnSmith-jj9jl
    @JohnSmith-jj9jl 3 года назад +6

    I wish I was LeVar Burton.

  • @joeyvalenz2899
    @joeyvalenz2899 3 года назад +13

    Conan needs to come back asap

  • @djtaitai
    @djtaitai 3 года назад +3

    Happy he just got the Jeopardy gig. Well deserved!

  • @peterwonaprize
    @peterwonaprize 3 года назад +5

    I wish I were Levar Burton

  • @HOTD108_
    @HOTD108_ 3 года назад +6

    Remember when Data voiced Conan on South Park?

  • @Tails7212
    @Tails7212 Год назад

    Such a nice guy, super aware.. wants to be decent and liked

  • @caw7007
    @caw7007 3 года назад +4

    Love this! Love Levar! Love Conan! Yes he is GOAT!

  • @joseapsantos3633
    @joseapsantos3633 3 года назад +2

    Boa noite, uma maravilhosa entrevista. Adorei o vídeo.

  • @MarcKloos
    @MarcKloos 3 года назад +5

    6 sessions and a movie!

    • @jerry8273
      @jerry8273 3 года назад

      7??? Seasons??? Not 6...

    • @cloudkitt
      @cloudkitt 3 года назад +1

      SET PHASERS TO LOVE ME

    • @pennyzzzzz8488
      @pennyzzzzz8488 Месяц назад

      @@cloudkitt YOU CAN'T DISAPPOINT A PICTURE

  • @JH-mo7xm
    @JH-mo7xm Год назад

    I read aftermath when it came out. Good story.

  • @Colin_Robinson_EV
    @Colin_Robinson_EV Год назад

    I don't care,I was a reading rainbow fan, which kept me out of trouble. Then, as a Treky, he definitely became one of my favorites 😊

  • @8xMorladumx8
    @8xMorladumx8 3 года назад +1

    Got into Star Trek becuase of him, not from Roots though. But from the highlights of my "Its school-time on a friday, so lets roll out the tv and watch Reading Rainbow" years. ^_^

  • @YowzaBowzaWowza
    @YowzaBowzaWowza 3 года назад +1

    His book probably wasn’t featured on Reading Rainbow.

  • @jaredmehrlich6683
    @jaredmehrlich6683 3 года назад +3

    Take a look, It's in a book, The Reading Rainbow.... Iii caan go anywhere....

  • @meekrodriguez6438
    @meekrodriguez6438 3 года назад +1

    Perfect videos

  • @KingAmroth
    @KingAmroth 3 года назад +1

    oof that prison section was kinda rough

  • @princeedmunddukeofedinburg
    @princeedmunddukeofedinburg 3 года назад +1

    R.I.P he was a fine lad....

  • @withershin
    @withershin Год назад

    Reading Rainbow with DMX is comedy platinum. Why LeVar is not the host of Jeopardy is because of DMX and RUclips. But we'll get there one day... Blossom is fine.

  • @DinoMan_6
    @DinoMan_6 3 года назад

    Reading Rainbow!

  • @nicolefreeman4386
    @nicolefreeman4386 3 года назад +3

    🥰

  • @butterfingersgeneration2510
    @butterfingersgeneration2510 3 года назад

    Selawat

  • @TifosoTurk
    @TifosoTurk 3 года назад

    conans ad libs ,as always, are just unbearable. can't even watch this whole thing.

  • @theheskeygamer1
    @theheskeygamer1 3 года назад +49

    "I told pierce a thousand times I didn't want to meet levar I only wanted a picture, you can't disappoint a picture"

    • @fightclub6291
      @fightclub6291 3 года назад +5

      Take a look🎶….🥲. In a book

    • @Laylia_
      @Laylia_ 3 года назад +5

      “Set phasers to love me!” 😩

  • @sleepingninjaquiettime
    @sleepingninjaquiettime 3 года назад +70

    For people that grew up in the 80's and 90's Levar is a legend.

    • @gamophyte
      @gamophyte 3 года назад +5

      Just his voice alone put me at ease

    • @sajidhoosen8665
      @sajidhoosen8665 3 года назад

      I know him from big bang

    • @plasticbleach4004
      @plasticbleach4004 2 года назад

      I didn't grow up in the 80s or 90s... Does that make him any less of a legend?

    • @davedaring9823
      @davedaring9823 2 года назад

      ...Ugh, not really... You do know that the vast majority of people over the age of 3 would have never heard of "Reading Rainbow" other then by being fans of TNG, right? It's literally a PBS show... how moronic do you have to be to be watching PBS last age 7? Like, Nickelodeon existed. And, you know, CBS. By the time you're 8 you are just a "little" to old to have some man reading books to you?? Especially children's books when you are already reading Goosebumps and Narnia and BFG???

  • @tonyfan3
    @tonyfan3 3 года назад +25

    I was a kid during Roots and didn’t understand but it was beautiful- I watched it every night and takes me to a place of respect for history

  • @DOSkywalkR
    @DOSkywalkR 3 года назад +12

    "crazy that Roots aired 20 years ago" - yeah, even crazier this clip aired 24 years ago and Mica Burton (his daughter) who used to host the video game news show "the know" was two years old according to LeVar. Time flies 😅

    • @BradTheAmerican
      @BradTheAmerican 3 года назад +4

      I didn't even know Mica was his daughter. My understanding of the lore grows further.

  • @RHTeebs
    @RHTeebs 3 года назад +51

    LeVar Burton is doing a GREAT job hosting Jeopardy! I watched his all the time when I was younger; both on Reading Rainbow, and Star Trek. He's awesome. I hope he gets the hosting job on Jeopardy.

    • @CherryBlossom28479
      @CherryBlossom28479 3 года назад +4

      Sadly he didn't, the producer of the show got the job and Mayim Bialik is hosting another version of Jeopardy. He should've gotten the hosting job, he was perfect.

  • @swarook927
    @swarook927 3 года назад +5

    I love LeVar. LOL is funny seeing him geeked up tho.

  • @frankmacleod2565
    @frankmacleod2565 3 года назад +6

    Three of my favorite people on earth here!! Lavar read to me when I was a kid, and Conan and Andy cracked me up in high school

  • @thismachinewill
    @thismachinewill 3 года назад +8

    I wish I was LeVar Burton

  • @steveg9863
    @steveg9863 3 года назад +9

    The man has always had class

  • @alpenglow4243
    @alpenglow4243 Год назад +2

    I knew LeVar when we were both kids growing up in Sacramento. He was full of energy and very driven at 9.

  • @davedaring9823
    @davedaring9823 2 года назад +2

    Old Conan = Better Conan.

  • @geisaune793
    @geisaune793 6 месяцев назад +1

    The Boomers have LeVar for Roots
    The Gen Xers have him for Star Trek
    And the Millennials have him for Reading Rainbow.
    That’s what we call a multi-generational role model.

  • @Pheno01
    @Pheno01 3 года назад +2

    "I wish I was LeVar Burton."
    -Lance Reddick

  • @DanK123
    @DanK123 Год назад +1

    If this is 1997, they had already made Generations and First Contact. Geordi didn't wear the visor anymore in First Contact.

  • @BoatrekLive
    @BoatrekLive 3 года назад +2

    The best candidate for the new Jeopardy host.

  • @jimvid5183
    @jimvid5183 Год назад +1

    Did his book happen to include a global pandemic?

  • @visceratrocar
    @visceratrocar 3 года назад +3

    This must have been 20 years ago

    • @jkap34
      @jkap34 3 года назад

      @@user-otzlixr haHA

  • @jonmanilenio
    @jonmanilenio Год назад +1

    he's a very serious guy, I didn't expect that.

  • @TimoNoko
    @TimoNoko 3 года назад +2

    Cameo - Word Up (RUclips video). LeVar Burton's finest moment.

  • @ScottThomas-t7o
    @ScottThomas-t7o 7 месяцев назад +1

    Very interesting

  • @money4louyah436
    @money4louyah436 2 года назад +2

    Oooo I hope they go all the way with it

    • @money4louyah436
      @money4louyah436 2 года назад +1

      That last one wasn’t bad for the first one I seen but if they went 10x with the cgi it would be phenomenal

  • @rob_4227
    @rob_4227 3 года назад +2

    Oh so LeVar Burton can also predict the future.

  • @Bigmummy13
    @Bigmummy13 3 года назад +1

    Reading Rainbow anyone?

  • @Officialmryuck
    @Officialmryuck 3 года назад +1

    Wasn't he the reading rainbow guy?

  • @claudiobervera8205
    @claudiobervera8205 3 года назад +4

    Levar Burton From Jeopardy

    • @DoomSiren
      @DoomSiren 3 года назад +1

      Levar Burton from Star Trek Next Gen first...... then jeopardy.

    • @Dulcimerist
      @Dulcimerist 3 года назад +2

      Levar Burton from Reading Rainbow

    • @justsomeguy2967
      @justsomeguy2967 3 года назад

      Levar Burton, the guy Troy only wants a picture of.

    • @trinity31409
      @trinity31409 3 года назад

      He is my favorite choice as the new host. He has just the right balance of calm and warmth.

    • @DoomSiren
      @DoomSiren 3 года назад

      @@Dulcimerist True it was first but star trek had a more cultural impact lol

  • @antondelacruz9362
    @antondelacruz9362 3 года назад +1

    Man i hope laforge is in picard.

  • @harmonybade324
    @harmonybade324 2 года назад +1

    LeVar is so ahead of his time. I will be sharing his book and suggesting it to everyone

  • @Ireneharnack1138
    @Ireneharnack1138 11 месяцев назад

    Wow, he has successfully predicted what will likely happen if Trump gets voted back in as president.

  • @b0tterman
    @b0tterman 2 месяца назад

    i was in 8th grade when Roots came out. It was this huge, cultural thing in our very white school. We had discussions about it with teachers the next day after every episode. It was eye opening for an ignorant white boy in the suburbs of NYC.

  • @DavidOspina-q1c
    @DavidOspina-q1c 8 месяцев назад

    What episode of reading rainbow did LeVar Burton's head get shaved?

  • @seanwebb605
    @seanwebb605 Год назад

    If Tim Allen was the guest he could talk longer about the time he was in prison. Working of course.

  • @xploration1437
    @xploration1437 3 года назад +2

    Conebone69

  • @paiwanhan
    @paiwanhan Год назад

    Uh... sounds like reality is on track to LeVar's predictions in his book.

  • @JAPelicano1
    @JAPelicano1 Год назад

    I'm forever attached to him from Reading Rainbow

  • @paulsmith9786
    @paulsmith9786 4 месяца назад

    lol he was on the show to promote a book he wrote about a RACE WAR!

  • @Goldenstateprospectors
    @Goldenstateprospectors 2 года назад

    Books stores😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️

  • @mirabella2154
    @mirabella2154 3 года назад +2

    I like his name. And I love Star Trek.
    Nothing compares to the original cast. My favourite is Captain Picard though. 😍

  • @LAUGHINGMANWILL
    @LAUGHINGMANWILL 3 года назад +8

    We are all the same people we are all the same race. Any argument against that fact is false

    • @dHolbach77
      @dHolbach77 3 года назад

      Even more accurate would be to say that race doesn't even scientifically exist. It's a bad hangover from Victorian era "white" racist pseudoscience that tried to pigeonhole different people into artificial, hierarchical taxonomies.

    • @37thraven
      @37thraven 2 года назад

      @@dHolbach77 Race exists only as much as someone might have more genetics from the original ~10 extant ancient 'family' lines. Which 23&Me and the DNA sites are revealing. But there are definitely racial populations in homogenous regions (e.g. Japan, Korea), where the social constructs around ethnicity discourage interracial marriage. None of this means that we should ignore how intermarried we all are, or ever revisit the terrible Victorian scientific racism around racial intelligence. But its silly to dismiss things like Sickle cell, celiac, aldehyde alcohol intolerance, malaria resistance, etc. which obviously have racial genetic components. Not just socioeconomic ones.
      I never bring this up to rl racists tho, because I dont want to give them any broad ideas to somehow justify their hate.

  • @seanwebb605
    @seanwebb605 Год назад

    Did his children do well in college?

  • @simpleusername7907
    @simpleusername7907 3 года назад +1

    I just wanted a picture!

  • @maryjanegroove
    @maryjanegroove 2 года назад

    Ha ha ha🖖🚀

  • @st8319
    @st8319 Год назад

    God I miss the 90s

  • @dcrockafella
    @dcrockafella 3 года назад

    I reading rainbow, I can go anywhere, take a look it's in a book, a reading rainbow (a reading rainbow), a reading rainbow (a reading rainbow..rainbow ..rainbow)

  • @seanskywalka5172
    @seanskywalka5172 Год назад

    I actually read that book soon after it came out (sometime in 1997). Was a good book. Almost like a horror movie, and what made it so horrific was it's plausibility

  • @ComicalRealm
    @ComicalRealm 3 года назад +7

    Fun fact: 2 models of the U.S.S. Enterprise were used in Star Trek (1966-1969). One is 3 feet long and the other is 11 feet long. The 11ft studio model of the U.S.S. Enterprise is on display in the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC

  • @butterfingersgeneration2510
    @butterfingersgeneration2510 3 года назад

    Habib umar bin hafiz. And habib jandan bin novel

  • @kevinkozlowski3060
    @kevinkozlowski3060 3 года назад

    I wish I was lance reddick . .

  • @Satoshi2622
    @Satoshi2622 2 года назад

    I wish I were LeVar Burton!

  • @hyunwooshin9739
    @hyunwooshin9739 3 года назад

    I wish i were levar burton

  • @andrewk2250
    @andrewk2250 3 года назад

    Modern day Mr. Rogers

  • @damaniqphillip2756
    @damaniqphillip2756 3 года назад +1

    Wow

  • @butterfingersgeneration2510
    @butterfingersgeneration2510 3 года назад

    Lagu tarim
    Kota wali allah

  • @DarkShroom
    @DarkShroom 3 года назад

    they shoulda explained away his visor earlier than the films, it was really cool when he got his augmented eyes, made sense to ... it should have been an episode to free the actor from that horrible prop
    respect to Jordie bringing us a great character, complete with his vulnerabilities, he wasn't a woodern actor at all a very belivable character

  • @butterfingersgeneration2510
    @butterfingersgeneration2510 3 года назад

    Islam

  • @dickcastle
    @dickcastle 3 года назад +4

    I always wondered about that visor... sounds very unpleasant

    • @CaptRazer
      @CaptRazer 3 года назад +1

      There were actually many versions of the visor that were used depending on the angle of the shot, so not only was it a very tight fit he was endlessly having to detach and reattach them.

  • @katarn0329
    @katarn0329 Год назад

    I watched this when I was one years old.