[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'139265\' date=\'Dec 1 2006, 01:22 PM\']You may criticize certain hosts (and some of them do deserve the criticism), but could you honestly do any better?[/quote]That's an irrelevant point. People chosen for game show hosting jobs are supposed to be picked because they embody the various skills required for the job. Not having an inside position at a production company, I can confidently say that I would not be able to do any better.
And to back that up, I can point to a half-dozen games of Family Feud that I hosted for a local game night. Imagine hosting the show with no cue cards to work with, ad libbing your entire script. And then imagine doing it poorly. That's about how it went. It's easy to read questions from a card and say "Oh, sorry, the correct answer is Yemen," but when you have a place to stand, a camera to look into and a contestant who might be blinded by the experience of it all, things get tough.
(But, yeah. Chris and DrBear both hit on my salient points anyway. And if there's one thing I can't stand, it's using five dollar words. Apropos? Quotidian? You gotta be kidding me. And that's in the first sentence.)