Ex-GS host-turned comedian-Davidson humiliated

[comicus]

But rather the most recent host of the UK's Generation Game and Big Break, Jim Davidson.  Article courtesy of the Manchester Evening News.  Quite a sad read, but it is GS-related, soo...

Has there ever been an American emcee who has fallen from grace, so to speak, after gaining fame in this field?  I mean, it's one thing to have your career slip away and wake up in Cruddy Infomercial Hell, but abject public humiliation...

[WhammyPower]

[quote name=\'CountdownRound\' post=\'148526\' date=\'Mar 17 2007, 04:18 PM\'] Has there ever been an American emcee who has fallen from grace, so to speak, after gaining fame in this field?  I mean, it's one thing to have your career slip away and wake up in Cruddy Infomercial Hell, but abject public humiliation... [/quote]

You could vouch for Richard Karn.  Then again, he wasn't really "famous" and was in Infomercial Hell to begin with.

[Casey]

[quote name=\'WhammyPower\' post=\'148527\' date=\'Mar 17 2007, 04:23 PM\']
You could vouch for Richard Karn.  Then again, he wasn't really "famous" and was in Infomercial Hell to begin with.
[/quote]
Looks up the word "vouch"...  I'd also argue that Karn was really quite well known when he started on Feud.  His character on Home Improvement was pretty popular.

[Matt Ottinger]

[quote name=\'CountdownRound\' post=\'148526\' date=\'Mar 17 2007, 05:18 PM\']Has there ever been an American emcee who has fallen from grace, so to speak, after gaining fame in this field?  I mean, it's one thing to have your career slip away and wake up in Cruddy Infomercial Hell, but abject public humiliation...[/quote]
I don't know Davidson's work, but the article seems to say that he's a very edgy and extremely un-PC comic who's probably not universally beloved, so it's not surprising he'll draw hecklers.  Nothing seems to suggest that he was even doing a bad job, just that an organized group of hecklers had made it their business to bring him down.  Sometimes the hecklers win; that's not quite the same thing as 'abject public humiliation.'  

Maybe there's something I'm not seeing, but I don't read this as nearly quite so pathetic as you're making it our to be.

[BrandonFG]

[quote name=\'CountdownRound\' post=\'148526\' date=\'Mar 17 2007, 05:18 PM\']
Has there ever been an American emcee who has fallen from grace, so to speak, after gaining fame in this field?  I mean, it's one thing to have your career slip away and wake up in Cruddy Infomercial Hell, but abject public humiliation...
[/quote]
I suppose you could say Jack Barry in the 50s, but he bounced back quite nicely with Joker's Wild.

[Jimmy Owen]

In the US, the tradition is that you do something scandalous (Pee Wee Herman, Monica Lewinsky) and then you get a game show.

[TimK2003]

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'148536\' date=\'Mar 17 2007, 08:17 PM\']
In the US, the tradition is that you do something scandalous (Pee Wee Herman, Monica Lewinsky) and then you get a game show.
[/quote]

John O'Hurley did Monica to get the hosting duties for Feud!!?

[Kevin Prather]

[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'148552\' date=\'Mar 17 2007, 08:49 PM\']
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'148536\' date=\'Mar 17 2007, 08:17 PM\']
In the US, the tradition is that you do something scandalous (Pee Wee Herman, Monica Lewinsky) and then you get a game show.
[/quote]
John O'Hurley did Monica to get the hosting duties for Feud!!?
[/quote]
Never mind that...which host did frickin' Pee Wee?

[TimK2003]

[quote name=\'whoserman\' post=\'148558\' date=\'Mar 18 2007, 01:48 AM\']
[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'148552\' date=\'Mar 17 2007, 08:49 PM\']
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'148536\' date=\'Mar 17 2007, 08:17 PM\']
In the US, the tradition is that you do something scandalous (Pee Wee Herman, Monica Lewinsky) and then you get a game show.
[/quote]
John O'Hurley did Monica to get the hosting duties for Feud!!?
[/quote]
Never mind that...which host did frickin' Pee Wee?
[/quote]

Dave Price has left several messages with Mr. Reubens, but no return calls yet.

[tpirfan28]

Ew.  That's an image I NEVER want to even remotely think of again.