LeVar Burton Gets Odd Requests From "Star Trek" Fans | Late Night With Conan O'Brien
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- (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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How about a whole generation that LOVES LeVar Burton from Reading Rainbow? I have such a deep emotional attachment to that show.
Same here brotha!
reading rainbow introduced me to star trek, and i fell in love with the series from then on
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
Hell yeah!!!
"I told pierce a thousand times I didn't want to meet levar I only wanted a picture, you can't disappoint a picture"
Take a look🎶….🥲. In a book
“Set phasers to love me!” 😩
LeVar Burton has fascinating eyes 🤩
Also: Conan did not know how much he would hang out at ComicCon many years later 😅
His eyes grew big cuz he used to look hard thru those hard-to-see visor
@@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
LeVar is an amazing guy, he's positively influenced so many people in so many ways.
Childhood nostalgia
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.
Also half a year before I was born lol
For people that grew up in the 80's and 90's Levar is a legend.
Just his voice alone put me at ease
I know him from big bang
I didn't grow up in the 80s or 90s... Does that make him any less of a legend?
...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???
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
Absolutely.
It's lucky enough to do one thing iconic. This man has Roots, Star Trek, Reading Rainbow, and directing Smart House.
He directed Smart House? I love Smart House!!
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.
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.
Levar was fantastic on Reading Rainbow.
But you don't have to take my word for it. ;)
Take a look, it's in a book, a reading rainbow
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
Watching him host Jeopardy , he's been killing it
I knew LeVar when we were both kids growing up in Sacramento. He was full of energy and very driven at 9.
"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 😅
I didn't even know Mica was his daughter. My understanding of the lore grows further.
2 words for ya.. Reading Rainbow. One of my all time favs growing up as a kid.
The man has always had class
Conan is the G.O.A.T of late night
Very true
The only fella thats real..
@@BAZZAROU812 What about Letterman?
Letterman is a LEGEND
@@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
i wish i was levar burton!!!!!
Yep was waiting for this...
i wish i was lance reddick
I love LeVar. LOL is funny seeing him geeked up tho.
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
Happy he just got the Jeopardy gig. Well deserved!
LeVar is so ahead of his time. I will be sharing his book and suggesting it to everyone
When you suggest his book to people, say "But you don't have to take my word for it..."
"I wish I was LeVar Burton."
-Lance Reddick
I am older and know him from Roots, Next Generation, and Reading Rainbow, now Picard. He is great every time.
I wish I was LeVar Burton.
Conan needs to come back asap
I wish I was LeVar Burton
he's a very serious guy, I didn't expect that.
Boa noite, uma maravilhosa entrevista. Adorei o vídeo.
Very interesting
Cameo - Word Up (UA-cam video). LeVar Burton's finest moment.
I wish I were Levar Burton
Remember when Data voiced Conan on South Park?
Love this! Love Levar! Love Conan! Yes he is GOAT!
Oh so LeVar Burton can also predict the future.
The best candidate for the new Jeopardy host.
Oooo I hope they go all the way with it
That last one wasn’t bad for the first one I seen but if they went 10x with the cgi it would be phenomenal
"... and uh, avoided the showers..." omg
Old Conan = Better Conan.
6 sessions and a movie!
7??? Seasons??? Not 6...
SET PHASERS TO LOVE ME
@@cloudkitt YOU CAN'T DISAPPOINT A PICTURE
Such a nice guy, super aware.. wants to be decent and liked
Levar Burton From Jeopardy
Levar Burton from Star Trek Next Gen first...... then jeopardy.
Levar Burton from Reading Rainbow
Levar Burton, the guy Troy only wants a picture of.
He is my favorite choice as the new host. He has just the right balance of calm and warmth.
@@Dulcimerist True it was first but star trek had a more cultural impact lol
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. ^_^
If this is 1997, they had already made Generations and First Contact. Geordi didn't wear the visor anymore in First Contact.
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
Perfect videos
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
I read aftermath when it came out. Good story.
I just wanted a picture!
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 😊
His book probably wasn’t featured on Reading Rainbow.
I like his name. And I love Star Trek.
Nothing compares to the original cast. My favourite is Captain Picard though. 😍
oof that prison section was kinda rough
I wish I were LeVar Burton!
This must have been 20 years ago
@Bryan haHA
I'm forever attached to him from Reading Rainbow
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)
God I miss the 90s
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.
What episode of reading rainbow did LeVar Burton's head get shaved?
If Tim Allen was the guest he could talk longer about the time he was in prison. Working of course.
Uh... sounds like reality is on track to LeVar's predictions in his book.
Take a look, It's in a book, The Reading Rainbow.... Iii caan go anywhere....
Ha ha ha🖖🚀
I wish i were levar burton
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.
Modern day Mr. Rogers
Habib umar bin hafiz. And habib jandan bin novel
Man i hope laforge is in picard.
Reading Rainbow!
R.I.P he was a fine lad....
Did his book happen to include a global pandemic?
Wasn't he the reading rainbow guy?
Reading Rainbow anyone?
I wish I was lance reddick . .
Books stores😶🌫️😶🌫️
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lol he was on the show to promote a book he wrote about a RACE WAR!
Did his children do well in college?
We are all the same people we are all the same race. Any argument against that fact is false
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.
@@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.
Wow
Conebone69
Wow, he has successfully predicted what will likely happen if Trump gets voted back in as president.
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
Selawat
conans ad libs ,as always, are just unbearable. can't even watch this whole thing.
Lagu tarim
Kota wali allah
Islam
I watched this when I was one years old.