One of Bill Hader's more memorable Saturday Night Live impressions was his take on Keith Morrison's Dateline reports. As portrayed by Hader, Morrison would take ghoulish glee in luridly reciting the grisliest details of each particularly nasty murder. In 2019, Hader received a surprise visit from Morrison himself during an interview for Sunday Today.
Joking that Hader's impression "probably extended my career," Morrison recalled the first time he saw himself spoofed, when his daughter phoned him on a Saturday night, "screaming into the phone and laughing" as she told him to turn on Saturday Night Live. Morrison admitted watching Hader play him was "very weird, I gotta tell you." In an interview with actress Kristen Bell for Entertainment Weekly, Morrison described his first reaction as confusion. "I didn't know whether to s**t or go blind," he quipped. "I mean, it's weird when somebody does that."
Hader, a self-proclaimed Dateline junkie, revealed those iconic SNL sketches came to be when the show's writers noticed him impersonating Morrison for his own amusement. "That was one of those things where I would do it around the office," Hader explained. "I would just walk around going, 'Ohhh.'"
