Upcoming Pyramid celebs

[ChuckNet]

If you don't feel like taking the time to visit the wasteland known as ATGS or do a Google search, I've C&P-ed the info, and here it is...

 Saturday - Nov 8, 2003
Bruce Vilanch (Hairspray) and Stephanie D'Abruzzo w/Kate Monster
(Avenue Q) (#2068) - Primary

 
 Friday - Nov 7, 2003
Mario Cantone (The Violet Hour, Sex and the City) and Deborah Gibson
(CD, "Colored Lights, the Broadway Album") (#2061) - Primary

Mario Lopez (Pet Star) vs. Adrienne Barbeau (Carnivale) (#2057) -
Secondary


 Thursday - Nov 6, 2003
Rosie O'Donnell (Taboo) and Neal Patrick Harris (Rent, SPT's animated
series Spider-Man) (#2055) - Primary

Victor Webster (Bringing Down the House) vs. Victoria Pratt (Mutant X)
(#2064) - Secondary


 Wednesday - Nov 5, 2003
Bruce Vilanch (Hairspray) and Stephanie D'Abruzzo w/Kate Monster
(Avenue Q) (#2068) - Primary
 
Penn Jillette (Penn and Teller) vs. Sharon Lawrence (NYPD Blue)
(#2063) - Secondary
 
 
 Tuesday - Nov 4, 2003
Jason Alexander (The Producers) vs. Loretta Devine (Boston Public, Bob
Fosse's Big Deal) (#2070) - Primary
 
Mario Cantone (Sex and the City) vs. Deborah Gibson (singer) (#2060) -
Secondary

 
 Monday - Nov 3, 2003
Ben Stein (Win Ben Stein's Money) vs. Melissa Peterman (Reba) (#2040) - Secondary
 
Rosie O'Donnell (Taboo) and Neal Patrick Harris (Rent, SPT's animated
series Spider-Man) (#2054) - Primary
 
 
 Saturday - Nov 1, 2003
Joshua Morrow (The Young and the Restless) vs. Heather Tom (The Young
and the Restless) (#2048) - Primary

 
 Friday - Oct 31, 2003
Greg Vaughan (General Hospital) vs. Alison Sweeney (Days of our Lives)
(#2051) - Primary
 
Smokey Robinson (singer) vs. Brian McKnight (singer) (#2006) -
Secondary


 Thursday - Oct 30, 2003
Rick Hearst (General Hospital) vs. Alison Sweeney (Days of our Lives)
(#2052) - Primary

Alan Thicke (actor) vs. Kelly Packard (Ripley's Believe It Or Not!)
(#2046) - Secondary

 
 Wednesday - Oct 29, 2003
Heather Tom (The Young and the Restless) vs. Tracey Ross (Passions)
(#2049) - Primary
 
Star Jones (The View) vs. Steve Valentine (Crossing Jordan) (#2003) -
Secondary
 
 
 Tuesday - Oct 28, 2003
Joshua Morrow (The Young and the Restless) vs. Tracey Ross (Passions)
(#2050) - Primary
 
Victor Williams (King of Queens) vs. Dayna Devon (Extra) (#2029) -
Secondary
 
 
 Monday - Oct 27, 2003
Joshua Morrow (The Young and the Restless) vs. Heather Tom (The Young
and the Restless) (#2048) - Primary

Rick Hearst (General Hospital) vs. Greg Vaughan (General Hospital)
(#2053) - Secondary


Nice to see how they've pulled out all the stops for what appears to be a Broadway Week airing Nov. 3-7, which includes a visit from occasional Davidson-era guest Jason Alexander, as well as GS favorite Rosie O'Donnell and former HS reg Bruce Vilanch.

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

[starcade]

UGH!!!  Not HIM again!!

That guy (Mario Cantone) should've been in a freaking straitjacket as hyper as his butt was on the show.

PS:  The album Donny referred to in the second game of last Wednesday's match will be released on the day that match is second-run (November 4).

[Brakus]

[quote name=\'starcade\' date=\'Oct 26 2003, 01:00 AM\'] UGH!!!  Not HIM again!!

That guy (Mario Cantone) should've been in a freaking straitjacket as hyper as his butt was on the show. [/quote]
 Oh just shut up. You non East Coasters/old sticklers are terrible sometimes.

I always thought Mario Cantone was funny. I actually remember him when he did Steampipe Alley on WWOR in the late '80s/early '90s. I think he did fine on Pyramid, kind of made the game a little more fun to watch.

[ChuckNet]

I always thought Mario Cantone was funny. I actually remember him when he did Steampipe Alley on WWOR in the late '80s/early '90s.

I thought he was funny on SA, but he seemed a bit more subdued there compared to his appearances on H2 and Pyramid this past season...however, since he's a pretty good player on the latter, I can't complain TOO much.

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

[starcade]

I'm not that old...

And I just saw some cross between Bobcat Goldthwait and Richard Simmons in him.

That made it all the easier to root for his opponent.  I just wish that Gibson wouldn't have to put up with that mania TWICE...

[Jay Temple]

[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' date=\'Oct 26 2003, 10:57 PM\'] I thought [Mario Cantone] was funny on SA, but he seemed a bit more subdued there compared to his appearances on H2 and Pyramid this past season...however, since he's a pretty good player on the latter, I can't complain TOO much. [/quote]
 Agreed.  Let's not complain about the celebs as long as they can play the game.

[Robert Hutchinson]

[quote name=\'Jay Temple\' date=\'Oct 29 2003, 01:33 PM\']Agreed.  Let's not complain about the celebs as long as they can play the game.[/quote]
If one is capable of watching a game show purely for the gameplay, that works. I, on the other hand, have trouble enjoying any television program when one of the people appearing on it is running a metaphorical nailfile over my brain, whether or not they just cleared the pyramid in 23 seconds.

[starcade]

OK, call me biased about Cantone with respect to his opponent (but Deborah, dear, when your opponent starts giving you the same answers to the definitive clues and a blank look -- PASS!!!), but the last poster made the point perfectly.

And grating a nailfile is being kind about how I feel about how Cantone was that first game...  Richard Simmons indeed...

I mean, would we accept Simmons on Pyramid???

[uncamark]

[quote name=\'starcade\' date=\'Oct 29 2003, 08:53 PM\']OK, call me biased about Cantone with respect to his opponent (but Deborah, dear, when your opponent starts giving you the same answers to the definitive clues and a blank look -- PASS!!!), but the last poster made the point perfectly.[/quote]
Seems to me that on Things That Are Eager Deborah had nothing to pass to--they'd turned over all five previous boxes.

OK, so they don't turn over anymore, but some terms from the old show you can't shake...

[Jay Temple]

[quote name=\'starcade\' date=\'Oct 29 2003, 07:53 PM\'] OK, call me biased about Cantone with respect to his opponent (but Deborah, dear, when your opponent starts giving you the same answers to the definitive clues and a blank look -- PASS!!!), but the last poster made the point perfectly.

And grating a nailfile is being kind about how I feel about how Cantone was that first game...  Richard Simmons indeed...

I mean, would we accept Simmons on Pyramid??? [/quote]
 I don't know whether we would, but he did make at least one appearance on Super Password.

[BrandonFG]

I don't know whether we would, but he did make at least one appearance on Super Password.

He's also done the current run of H2. He was a little annoying there, always cheering "Yayy, ___!" whenever a celebrity was called on.

[Dbacksfan12]

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Oct 30 2003, 05:19 PM\']

I don't know whether we would, but he did make at least one appearance on Super Password.

He's also done the current run of H2. He was a little annoying there, always cheering "Yayy, ___!" whenever a celebrity was called on. [/quote]
 As well as Davidson's Squares; in 1987.

[ChuckNet]

I don't know whether we would, but he (Richard Simmons) did make at least one appearance on Super Password.

And during that wk, he helped give away $40K in a bonus round, causing him to break down in tears after the win.

He also appeared on Body Language, Pictionary, and an unsold pilot called What Are My True Colors that actually aired as an ABC special on 5/30/87 (a Sat afternoon...they pre-empted American Bandstand).

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

[zachhoran]

[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' date=\'Oct 30 2003, 06:26 PM\']

I don't know whether we would, but he (Richard Simmons) did make at least one appearance on Super Password.

And during that wk, he helped give away $40K in a bonus round, causing him to break down in tears after the win.

He also appeared on Body Language, Pictionary, and an unsold pilot called What Are My True Colors that actually aired as an ABC special on 5/30/87 (a Sat afternoon...they pre-empted American Bandstand).

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby") [/quote]
 And he did an ABC Dawson Feud primetime special in 1983, and a week of Combs Syndie Feud in its first season as part of a "Funny Men" team. He also made a cameo on TPIR94, emerging at the end of a showcase reveal.

[trainman]

Wednesday - Nov 5, 2003
Bruce Vilanch (Hairspray) and Stephanie D'Abruzzo w/Kate Monster
(Avenue Q) (#2068) - Primary

I went to college with Stephanie D'Abruzzo, and she just sent out an e-mail to her friends promoting her appearance.  She said it was very hard playing the main game with only one hand.  (Kate Monster is a puppet.)

Of course, it's very appropriate to have her matched up with Bruce Vilanch, since he looks like a Muppet...or, at least, he used to before he shaved the beard.