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Kevin Prather:
I feel like it's become more en vogue in the 2000s, probably since Weakest Link.
Dick Clark was given as an example, but his brutal honesty was usually constructive. "This round is not going your way. Let's power through it and focus on doing better next round." That sort of thing.
Blanquepage:
Inquizition 8) It's too bad Showdown remains lost to time, descriptions of Joe Pyne's presentation suggest that it fits this thread.
Neumms:
Monty was also mighty quick to criticize wrong guessers at pricing groceries, even when his “reasonable limits” weren’t all that reasonable. Barker wouldn’t rib contestants unless a response was so dumb, the audience was laughing already.
Allen Ludden had his way of cringing to camera after a bad guess or clue. Betty even brought it up in an interview about him.
steveleb:
Bill Rafferty and obviously Dawson made this quality part of their legacies, and more recently Alec Baldwin channeled his version of Gene Rayburn’s “that’s a rotten answer”. I suppose Steve Harvey’s exaggerated eye rolls qualify too?
knagl:
--- Quote from: TLEberle on January 05, 2025, 11:03:34 PM ---Even thought he was more of a wiseacre I thought George Gray had no truck for stupidity in terms of contestants being rather thick in terms of missing the easier material. Same with Jane Lynch.
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Wasn't that part of the schtick of being the host of Weakest Link, though? I've never seen the Lynch version, but I certainly remember Anne Robinson being pretty condescending to contestants. I felt like that was part of the show, not that she was a mean person in real life...
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