Author Topic: Greatest Hosts of All Time - Results Thread (Read 113113 times)

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #15 on:** October 03, 2006, 10:54:30 PM »

Others receiving a vote on only a single ballot (listed alphabetically):

Jack Bailey (Queen for a Day)
Johnny Carson (Who Do You Trust?)
John Davidson (Hollywood Squares)
Clifton Fadiman (Information, Please)
Bruce Forsyth (Bruce Forsyth’s Hot Streak)
Pat Finn (Shop ’Til You Drop)
Ralph Garman (The Joe Schmo Show, and as Derek Newcastle in Joe Schmo 2)
Phil Keoghan (The Amazing Race)
Pat Kiernan (World Series of Pop Culture)
Bill Leyden (Your First Impression)
Lohman & Barkley (Lohman & Barkley's Name Droppers)
Sal Masekela (Ballbreakers)
Mike O’Malley (Nickelodeon GUTS)
Julielinh Parker (Beat the Clock)
Jerry Springer (Greed, UK)
Chris Tarrant (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, UK)
J. Keith VanStraaten (Beat the Geeks)
Vanna White (Wheel of Fortune)
Bobby Van (Make Me Laugh)

chad1m · « **Reply #16 on:** October 03, 2006, 10:56:36 PM »

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'133357\' date=\'Oct 3 2006, 10:54 PM\']Bobby Van (Make Me Laugh)
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Don't forget Showoffs! Or is it for the better we do?

chris319 · « **Reply #17 on:** October 03, 2006, 11:12:50 PM »

Dick Martin wasn't blatantly BAD on Mindreaders, but he was quite awkward. Mindreaders had much bigger problems than Dick, to wit, the audience didn't care about celebrities guessing how three nobodies responded to a question.

Chuck Sutton · « **Reply #18 on:** October 03, 2006, 11:19:25 PM »

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'133357\' date=\'Oct 3 2006, 10:54 PM\']
Others receiving a vote on only a single ballot (listed alphabetically):

Phil Keoghan (The Amazing Race)
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And it wasn't me this time

cweaver · « **Reply #19 on:** October 04, 2006, 12:21:16 AM »

[quote name=\'chad1m\' post=\'133358\' date=\'Oct 3 2006, 09:56 PM\']
Don't forget Showoffs! Or is it for the better we do?
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No, we need Showoffs to help block the memory of The Fun Factory.

cweaver · « **Reply #20 on:** October 04, 2006, 12:24:50 AM »

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'133357\' date=\'Oct 3 2006, 09:54 PM\']
Others receiving a vote on only a single ballot (listed alphabetically):

Jack Bailey (Queen for a Day)
Johnny Carson (Who Do You Trust?)
[/quote]

These two made it all the way to my next-to-last draft, but got knocked off when I remembered some others. It was painful to leave these guys off since I've especially felt Bailey is one of the most underrated hosts of all time.

Jay Temple · « **Reply #21 on:** October 04, 2006, 01:08:07 AM »

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'133201\' date=\'Oct 2 2006, 03:51 PM\']
There ended up being 59 individuals who were named on at least two ballots, so we'll count down those 59 names over the next few days. Meanwhile, some names that didn't make the list, starting with:

Notables who received no votes on any ballot:[/quote]
I know of one other notable who I assume received no votes: Jackie Gleason, who apologized for the single week of You're in the Picture. Has anyone here seen it to know whether his hosting was part of why it stunk?

Robert Hutchinson · « **Reply #22 on:** October 04, 2006, 01:13:24 AM »

Let's not forget Mike O'Malley's outstanding work on Get the Picture, either.

I still love that show, but watching that episode online a while back--yeah, Mike wasn't the best host ever.

HYHYBT · « **Reply #23 on:** October 04, 2006, 01:15:28 AM »

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I recall Mandel mentioning in a post that while scouring the library's catalog, the Mindreaders tapes are simply nowhere to be found.

Well, if you're going to lose a show, it might as well be that one.

(In all fairness, I've only seen the clip on Page-O-Clips.... but then again, that was almost too much)

Ian Wallis · « **Reply #24 on:** October 04, 2006, 08:56:33 AM »

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No, we need Showoffs to help block the memory of The Fun Factory.

Ahhh....memories of lunch-time watching when I was a kid!

Honestly, I didn't think Fun Factory was too bad for its time - it was different than any other game on at the time, but I understand the sentiments. I was actually dubbing an episode of this to DVD last weekend, and my wife saw it for the first time and didn't think much of it. Still, the two episodes GSN ran of it are neat gems to have!

For the record, I wasn't the one who put Bobby Van on the list...but I think I know who might have

cweaver · « **Reply #25 on:** October 04, 2006, 09:30:12 AM »

[quote name=\'Jay Temple\' post=\'133379\' date=\'Oct 4 2006, 12:08 AM\']
I know of one other notable who I assume received no votes: Jackie Gleason, who apologized for the single week of You're in the Picture. Has anyone here seen it to know whether his hosting was part of why it stunk?
[/quote]

I have both the one episode of You're in the Picture and the following week's apology. Jackie did all right, it's what he had to work with that sucked so mightily. He got off some one-liner hints to the puzzles that the panel couldn't have possibly figured out, and did a live Kellogg's commercial from his desk. It's the following week's show that is certainly a must have, as Jackie almost shocks the audience with his honesty about what happened the week before.

Jackie did all right hosting his one game show half hour, but not well enough to catapult him past the Cullens, Barkers, Marshalls, Rayburns and other seasoned veterans.

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #26 on:** October 04, 2006, 09:46:24 AM »

Remember that just as on Family Feud, it took at least two votes to make our survey. Credits are representative, not all-inclusive. And speaking of seasoned veterans:

[color=\"#CC33CC\"]59 Guy Smiley[/color]
What's My Part?, Beat the Time, The Triangle is Right
(4 points, 2 of 68 ballots cast)

A piece of felt got more votes than Ryan Seacrest.

[color=\"#CC33CC\"]58 Anne Robinson[/color]
Weakest Link
(7, 3/68)

[color=\"#CC33CC\"]57 Joe Garagiola[/color]
To Tell the Truth, Sale of the Century, Joe Garagiola's Memory Game
(9, 4/68)

We were unkind to hosts with their names in the titles. Bruce Forsyth and Lohman & Barkley each only got one vote.

[color=\"#CC33CC\"]53 Bob Goen[/color]
Wheel of Fortune, Blackout, That's the Question
(13 2/68)

Don Howard · « **Reply #27 on:** October 04, 2006, 09:58:13 AM »

This means that not only did Todd Russell get at least two votes, but he made the top 55. YES!

SRIV94 · « **Reply #28 on:** October 04, 2006, 10:17:38 AM »

[quote name=\'cweaver\' post=\'133374\' date=\'Oct 3 2006, 11:24 PM\']
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'133357\' date=\'Oct 3 2006, 09:54 PM\']
Others receiving a vote on only a single ballot (listed alphabetically):

Jack Bailey (Queen for a Day)
Johnny Carson (Who Do You Trust?)
[/quote]

These two made it all the way to my next-to-last draft, but got knocked off when I remembered some others. It was painful to leave these guys off since I've especially felt Bailey is one of the most underrated hosts of all time.
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I'll come clean. I'm the one who voted for Carson.

Again, this was more a tribute to his career than anything--he was the epitome of the word "host" regardless of the format. Thus, I felt he belonged on the list--even though my only experience with WHO DO YOU TRUST is seeing short clips.

That doesn't mean that Jay Leno got any support for "Battle Of The Jaywalking All Stars" or David Letterman getting any support for THE RIDDLERS or "Will It Float" (although isn't Dave technically playing the role of host and contestant?).

Doug -- and the countdown to 2300 continues

Don Howard · « **Reply #29 on:** October 04, 2006, 10:34:16 AM »

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'133408\' date=\'Oct 4 2006, 09:46 AM\']
And speaking of seasoned veterans:

[color=\"#CC33CC\"]59 Guy Smiley[/color]
What's My Part?, Beat the Time, The Triangle is Right
(4 points, 2 of 68 ballots cast)
[/quote]
Nice picture in the Northwest Corner. Now I've seen everything. At least Pat O'Brien got the honor first.

ADDENDUM: The above sentence was typed when there was a photo of Guy Smiley up there.