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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: comicus on March 17, 2007, 05:18:38 PM
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But rather the most recent host of the UK's Generation Game and Big Break, Jim Davidson. Article courtesy of the Manchester Evening News. (http://\"http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1002/1002201_hecklers_silence_comic_davidson_.html\") 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...
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[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.
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[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.
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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.
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[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.
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[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...
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I suppose you could say Jack Barry in the 50s, but he bounced back quite nicely with Joker's Wild.
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In the US, the tradition is that you do something scandalous (Pee Wee Herman, Monica Lewinsky) and then you get a game show.
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[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.
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John O'Hurley did Monica to get the hosting duties for Feud!???!?
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[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.
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John O'Hurley did Monica to get the hosting duties for Feud!???!?
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Never mind that...which host did frickin' Pee Wee?
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[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.
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John O'Hurley did Monica to get the hosting duties for Feud!???!?
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Never mind that...which host did frickin' Pee Wee?
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Dave Price has left several messages with Mr. Reubens, but no return calls yet.
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Ew. That's an image I NEVER want to even remotely think of again.