So, the only way to be a decent game show host is to be an absolute scumbag off-screen?
I really hope Bill Cullen was the exception that proves the rule… On Friday, August 20, 2021 at 10:55:18 PM UTC-4 Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote: > I’m not enough of a Jeopardy! watcher to have a vested interest, but I’ve > worked on several game shows, and interacted with several former and > current hosts on social media. Pat Sajak and Chuck Woolery are two abysmal > human beings. I have nothing nice to say about their politics, their > attitude, or their off screen behavior… but they are good if not great > hosts. Dick Clark was a penny-pinching, micro-managing control freak (and > if his personal life was subjected to 2021 type of scrutiny, whoa)… but he > was an exceptional host. By contrast I thought Howie Mandel was one of the > kindest, funniest, most insightful people I ever worked with, but he made > Deal or No Deal unwatchable to me. > > If the hope is to find a fully “woke” person who also happens to be a good > game show host, I’m sure they are out there. I’m sure there are hosts out > there who aren’t openly sexist or discriminatory. But I also don’t know how > a standard talent search goes about vetting for that. I’m not saying the > vetting shouldn’t occur… it absolutely should… but it’ll never be enough to > catch every email or text or social media post or obscure podcast comment. > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 7:08 PM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I can't -- or maybe I can -- believe they'd let him stick around after >> all that mishegoss. If he's too toxic to host, I'd think he'd be too toxic >> to EP. Although, maybe it's too tough to do now that they're back in >> production. >> >> If I were the good people at Jeopardy, I'd also use this as an >> opportunity to also dump Bialak and her brain-medicine/anti-vax persona and >> start completely fresh. >> >> I think my feeling about everyone else have been made clear by this point >> ... >> >> --Dave Sikula >> >> On Friday, August 20, 2021 at 3:51:08 PM UTC-7 Brad Beam wrote: >> >>> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On >>> Behalf Of *Kevin M. >>> >>> *>*The real question remains: Will he remain as EP? >>> >>> >>> >>> According to *USA Today, *yes. (Also, the article’s author has her own >>> candidate to host: Aisha Tyler.) >>> >>> >>> https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2021/08/20/jeopardy-and-mike-richards-how-all-went-wrong/8209913002/ >>> >>> >>> >>> _ _ >>> >>> |_>|_> Brad Beam- Belle WV >>> >>> |_>|_> http://www.facebook.com/74bmw >>> >>> >>> >> -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/b006639c-db04-473b-a9aa-d15e58229157n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/b006639c-db04-473b-a9aa-d15e58229157n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > Kevin M. (RPCV) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/f596a87d-7866-4f6c-9e3a-2691dfbfcc7dn%40googlegroups.com.
