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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: Red on October 20, 2009, 11:46:51 PM
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http://media.gunaxin.com/the-13-greatest-g...how-hosts/32529 (http://\"http://media.gunaxin.com/the-13-greatest-game-show-hosts/32529\")
With one noticeable exclusion let the rioting ensue.
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While completely ignoring any of the actual CONTENT of the article...
...that was STILL a horribly-written pile of steaming shiat.
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Nice clip of Bob Eubanks guest hosting America's Top 10, however.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'228915\' date=\'Oct 20 2009, 11:52 PM\']While completely ignoring any of the actual CONTENT of the article...
...that was STILL a horribly-written pile of steaming shiat.[/quote]
Didn't read any of the content after the first sentence -- Who Wants To Be A Millionaire is/was a "flash in the pan"!??!?
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The author included Jim Lange and Chuck Barris, but no Bill Cullen, Tom Kennedy, or Dick Clark. Not to sound like a fanb0i, but the author is an idiot who needs to do some more research.
Not to mention this gem:
You can catch many of these that no longer air on the Game Show Network, or, you can obviously watch “Wheel of Fortune” and “Jeopardy” every single night on CBS (in many markets).
Since when?
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'228933\' date=\'Oct 21 2009, 11:03 AM\']The author included Jim Lange and Chuck Barris, but no Bill Cullen, Tom Kennedy, or Dick Clark. Not to sound like a fanb0i, but the author is an idiot who needs to do some more research.[/quote]
Compared to other lists like this that we've seen, I give the author a lot of credit for just knowing who Jim Lange and Chuck Barris (not to mention Bud Collyer) even are. In that sense, this isn't such a bad list. Remove Chuckie Baby, and the lowest any of his choices hit on our list from 2006 is #31 (Lange) and nine of his 13 are in our top twenty. So really all we're complaining about are the omissions, which are striking but explainable for someone who's pretty obviously a child of the eighties and not specifically a game show fan.
You want weird, look at some of the "you forgot" comments in the responses. Summer Sanders? Jimmy Pardo?
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[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'228936\' date=\'Oct 21 2009, 08:50 AM\']So really all we're complaining about are the omissions[/quote]
No, no, I was complaining about the grammatical, spelling, and typographical errors, and the overall piss-poor quality of the writing. :)
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it's one of the 50 zillion blogs out there. It's worth the paper it's written on. Oh wait...
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'228933\' date=\'Oct 21 2009, 11:03 AM\']The author included Jim Lange and Chuck Barris, but no Bill Cullen, Tom Kennedy, or Dick Clark. Not to sound like a fanb0i, but the author is an idiot who needs to do some more research.[/quote]
Agreed.
Not to mention this gem:
You can catch many of these that no longer air on the Game Show Network, or, you can obviously watch “Wheel of Fortune” and
“Jeopardy” every single night on CBS (in many markets).
Since when?
The "(in many markets)" wording was added after I noted on Digg that the programs are syndicated and probably "happen to air on a CBS station in the author's market." The amended text remains incorrect, of course (as the programs don't air "on CBS" in any market). Why he didn't simply change "on CBS" to "in syndication" is beyond me.
He also originally had #5 spelled "Chuck Wolery."
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[quote name=\'David Levy\' post=\'228941\' date=\'Oct 21 2009, 09:51 AM\']He also originally had #5 spelled "Chuck Wolery."[/quote]
Oh, did he fix that? Kudos for that, I guess.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'228943\' date=\'Oct 21 2009, 01:08 PM\'][quote name=\'David Levy\' post=\'228941\' date=\'Oct 21 2009, 09:51 AM\']He also originally had #5 spelled "Chuck Wolery."[/quote]
Oh, did he fix that? Kudos for that, I guess.[/quote]
Except it now appears that "on CBS (in many markets)" is a correction that still shows a staggering lack of understanding about the basic operation of television. So yeah, the thing you said about the grammatical, spelling, and typographical errors, and the overall piss-poor quality of the writing? OK, that.
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From Brent in the blog's comments section:
"As I got near the end I was starting to get worried. “Where’s Bob Barker!?!” Fortunately my fears were unwarranted. :D"
Yes, boy, Daddy made the list. Your worst fears have not been realized.
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Yeah, no one under the age of fifty should be writing a list of great game show hosts. It's like comparing current baseball greats with those from the 1920s.
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[quote name=\'alfonzos\' post=\'228962\' date=\'Oct 21 2009, 03:55 PM\']Yeah, no one under the age of fifty should be writing a list of great game show hosts. It's like comparing current baseball greats with those from the 1920s.[/quote]I take particular exception to this comment. Besides people on this board, I think are others out there who are very, very well versed in game show history and the history of television in general.
I think people over the age of 50 shouldn't be allowed to use the internet, because they used typewriters in school, not computers. See how that works?
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[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'228945\' date=\'Oct 21 2009\']Except it now appears that "on CBS (in many markets)" is a correction that still shows a staggering lack of understanding about the basic operation of television. So yeah, the thing you said about the grammatical, spelling, and typographical errors, and the overall piss-poor quality of the writing? OK, that.[/quote]
Confusion regarding the distinction between a network and its affiliates frustrates me to no end.
http://digg.com/television/The_13_Greatest...osts?t=28921998 (http://\"http://digg.com/television/The_13_Greatest_Game_Show_Hosts?t=28921998\")
I wish that I had a dollar for every instance in which I've encountered such a misunderstanding. ("No, you're wrong! The 'Seinfeld' reruns air on Fox!")
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To most people that is minutia. WOF is on a good number of CBS affils, there's a CBS Television Dist. logo at the end of the show, that can lead to people thinking it has a connection to CBS.
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[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'228970\' date=\'Oct 21 2009, post=\']To most people that is minutia. WOF is on a good number of CBS affils, there's a CBS Television Dist. logo at the end of the show, that can lead to people thinking it has a connection to CBS.[/quote]
Yes, I understand why the confusion arises. But when someone states to an online audience that a syndicated program airs "on CBS," this spawns further confusion (and points many readers toward the wrong stations).
Incidentally, it is correct to state that "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune" have a connection to CBS (the corporation, not the network). As you noted above, they're distributed by CBS Television Distribution (due to the CBS acquisition of King World).
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He also originally had #5 spelled "Chuck Wolery."
Everyone knows the correct spelling is Wollery.
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I cannot believe Dick Clark is not on the countdown. I thought he would be on that countdown for sure.
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[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'228936\' date=\'Oct 21 2009, 11:50 AM\']You want weird, look at some of the "you forgot" comments in the responses.[/quote]
Yes. One scholar's comments offer a list of seventeen names which should have been included within "The Top 13".
But, what the hey, there are 11 teams in The Big Ten.
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[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'228972\' date=\'Oct 21 2009, 07:24 PM\']
He also originally had #5 spelled "Chuck Wolery."
Everyone knows the correct spelling is Wollery.
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I forget. Wasn't he the guy that hosted Family Fued?
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[quote name=\'Twentington\' post=\'228995\' date=\'Oct 21 2009, 11:31 PM\'][quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'228972\' date=\'Oct 21 2009, 07:24 PM\']
He also originally had #5 spelled "Chuck Wolery."
Everyone knows the correct spelling is Wollery.
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I forget. Wasn't he the guy that hosted Family Fued?[/quote]
Not sure, but I do know that the announcer for the pilot of Family Fued was Johnny Olsen.
In the original printing of Harry Eisenberg's book about Jeopardy, there are references to Pat Sajack and comedian John Stewart.
That's all I've got.
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Wolery left whel, dont'cha know? :P
//someone had to say it
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[quote name=\'Twentington\' post=\'228995\' date=\'Oct 21 2009, 09:31 PM\']I forget. Wasn't he the guy that hosted Family Fued?[/quote]
No, it was Joe Nammath.
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[quote name=\'J.R.\' post=\'228999\' date=\'Oct 22 2009, 12:30 AM\'][quote name=\'Twentington\' post=\'228995\' date=\'Oct 21 2009, 09:31 PM\']I forget. Wasn't he the guy that hosted Family Fued?[/quote]
No, it was Joe Nammath.
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Yeah, you're right, it was. I just couldn't think of his name-ath.
/I take no credit for that pun
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[quote name=\'Twentington\' post=\'229002\' date=\'Oct 21 2009, 10:04 PM\']Yeah, you're right, it was. I just couldn't think of his name-ath...[/quote]
Reminds me, I gotta get Rolfed tomorrow. Benirschke's not in the top 13?
Not sure, but I do know that the announcer for the pilot of Family Fued was Johnny Olsen.
Is there NOTHING that Matt does not know?!
Page 323 from that new book:
... Johnny voiced the pilot episode that featured members of the Speir household
feuding with the Madvig clan, but Gene Wood was cast to announce the series
because Johnny’s schedule was full. The veteran announcer may be considered
lucky that other work precluded his participation, as by all accounts, Family Feud
became one of the more contentious sets during some difficult years of friction
between Richard Dawson and Producer Howard Felsher...
Randy
tvrandywest.com
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[quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'228993\' date=\'Oct 21 2009, 10:19 PM\'][quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'228936\' date=\'Oct 21 2009, 11:50 AM\']You want weird, look at some of the "you forgot" comments in the responses.[/quote]
Yes. One scholar's comments offer a list of seventeen names which should have been included within "The Top 13".
But, what the hey, there are 11 teams in The Big Ten.
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If you've watched Illinois try to play football this year, you'd know that last sentence is false.
/Uh, at least we beat Illinois State?
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[quote name=\'Mr. Armadillo\' post=\'229013\' date=\'Oct 22 2009, 09:16 AM\']/Uh, at least we beat Illinois State?[/quote]
At least life was normal against a school from Normal for one Saturday.
/Thank God for WSCR on drives to ISU
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Okay, I apologize for my flippant generalization. But my point meant to be that the body of work of veterans of the industry because so little footage exsists. For example, Dennis James rarely gets mentioned among the all-time greaats despite the fact that he was hosting since television's very beginning and he was the other host of The New Price is Right.
Now, you kids get off my lawn.
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[quote name=\'alfonzos\' post=\'229046\' date=\'Oct 22 2009, 10:29 PM\']Dennis James rarely gets mentioned among the all-time greaats despite the fact that he was hosting since television's very begining and he was the other host of The New Price is Right.[/quote]
One could argue (even one who's not quite fifty) that Dennis James doesn't deserve to be named among the all-time greats just because he happened to have been around from the beginning. You probably could have picked a better example. I have a website dedicated to one, for instance.
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None of the other hosts of TPIR were included in the list, yet to do that show, you've got to be good.
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[quote name=\'alfonzos\' post=\'229046\' date=\'Oct 22 2009, 09:29 PM\']But my point meant to be that the body of work of veterans of the industry because so little footage exsists. For example, Dennis James rarely gets mentioned among the all-time greaats despite the fact that he was hosting since television's very begining and he was the other host of The New Price is Right.[/quote]Just because you are a "veteran" doesn't make you great.
This applies outside of television as well (http://\"http://www.racing-reference.info/driver?id=gordoce01\").
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[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'229079\' date=\'Oct 23 2009, 02:44 AM\']This applies outside of television as well (http://\"http://www.racing-reference.info/driver?id=gordoce01\").[/quote]
So I gotta know...what the hell was he doing "right" between '71-'75? :)
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[quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'228993\' date=\'Oct 21 2009, 10:19 PM\']But, what the hey, there are 11 teams in The Big Ten.[/quote]
We alumni of the University of Minnesota are proud to cheer the first football team to finish 11th in the Big Ten. (There was a tie for 10th the year before they accomplished this.)
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I'd say he forgot Clifton Fadiman, but I doubt the blogger ever heard of him.
[quote name=\'napanickg\' post=\'228998\' date=\'Oct 21 2009, 11:51 PM\']Wolery left whel, dont'cha know? :P
//someone had to say it[/quote]
Not really.