I’m heading for Paris, and discovered this video — by a brilliant travel guru named Steve Ricks — filled with tips as well as inspiration. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. (Nice work, Steve, but those glasses just have to go.)
If you can’t see the video below, watch it on YouTube.
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Rick, I can`t believe you just discovered this video. It`s been around for ages.
Glad that you have a good sense of humor because these videos are funny! I always wondered why some people of the blog call you Steve Ricks!
Too funny and I have to say he captured your mannerisms, way of talking, and a tendency to speak in sophomoric terms.
Eh, fairly amusing but “sophomoric” too. (I did not associate that term with Rick Steves before: a bouncy optimism, yes, and once, it was carried even to the point of a blinkered “Candide all is for the Best” outlook as in the Iran special. Rick in Iran is just ripe for a parody!! Please consider this.) Actually I find the bloopers and outtakes to be funnier.
Eh, I think SNL could do better. Steve Ricks doesn`t resemble or sound like Rick at all and sometimes Rick`s shows are unintentionally funny.
I think the video does capture the lisp Rick oftentimes speaks with as well as his tendency to state the obvious, like “in France they speak french”. I think he falls for the belief that Americans are travel illiterate, yet I am sure his demographic customer base IS very travel savvy.
I, too, have often wondered what it would be like for SNL to parody Rick Steves. I hope Andy Samberg would be involved. Set in Amsterdam with the Red Light District and marijuana could get out of control really fast.
I love these clips, good for you Rick for posting this and reminding me of them. They are funny.