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The Game Show Host Look Alike Contest
J.R.:
I sorta bear a striking resemblance to Gordon Elliott in his TTTT 90 days.
-Joe R.
Esoteric Eric:
--- Quote ---It's just a list of people that I thought of, who I see often on national TV, and believe that they look somewhat similar to a certain game show host.
--- End quote ---
Well, that's how it started, Track Man, but two of the other replies you've gotten so far misinterpreted what you're looking for.
(Heck, I'm no better; when I started this reply, I was gonna bring up the striking similarity of \"Monopoly\" host Michael Reilly and a guy who was a trainer at a gym I used that summer (1990). Then I reread the original post.)
Anyway... after watching David Hasselhoff on last night's \"Whose Line...?\", it occurred to me that he could play a Chuck Woolery-type, in a \"Diagnosis: Murder/She Wrote\"-sort of way... couldn't he?
And is everyone being nice, or has no one else remembered the resemblance of Jim Perry to HRH The Prince of Wales? (I think they even did a CS survey, showing Jim's headshot and Prince Charles' portrait to 100 people on the street and asking the folks if the two pix were the same guy.)
Esoteric Eric... No, really, as soon as Mike Reilly was introed on the first ep, I said, \"So, Merv was working out one day, and his trainer says, 'Y'know, Mr. G., I'd be a really good GS host if I ever got the chance.'\" ((8=D))
clemon79:
[quote name=\'Esoteric Eric\' date=\'Jun 28 2003, 05:50 PM\'] Esoteric Eric... No, really, as soon as Mike Reilly was introed on the first ep, I said, "So, Merv was working out one day, and his trainer says, 'Y'know, Mr. G., I'd be a really good GS host if I ever got the chance.'" ((8=D)) [/quote]
If I remember correctly, that isn't too far removed from how it happened.
(I'm trying to remember a story I heard fifteen years ago, so there's a good chance I'm goofing it up.)
IIRC, Reilly was actually being used as a test contestant when they were developing the game. Griffin was present (I _believe_ he was playing \"host\"), decided he wanted to try playing, and booted Reilly over to the host's podium. Merv liked what he saw.
Esoteric Eric:
--- Quote ---IIRC, Reilly was actually being used as a test contestant when they were developing the game. Griffin was present (I _believe_ he was playing \"host\"), decided he wanted to try playing, and booted Reilly over to the host's podium. Merv liked what he saw.
--- End quote ---
I think you're right, Chris.
It's certainly logical for Reilly to have been present as a test contestant, since (per EOTVGS2) he had been a contestant on \"Jeopardy!\" (I wasn't aware of his J! appearance at the time of his hosting debut.)
Esoteric Eric... but the trainer at my gym - sheesh - I could've beaten him (to say nothing of all the other trainers and half the clientele) at J! with half my brain tied behind my back!
(Oh, yeah, and about the actual SUBJECT of the thread... uh, how 'bout Kennedy and SNL's Tina Fey? Mike Darrow and \"Scrubs\"' John C. McGinley?)
Dan Sadro:
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the famous example of game show hosts -- Rayburn and Marshall. Someone with a better memory than mine probably can explain why they were both on a Pontiac commercial at the same time... I seem to remember that it had something to do with a thought bubble.
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