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Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: chris319 on July 23, 2007, 06:47:46 PM
This thread is for giving your (unsolicited) advice to the new emcee of The Price Is Right, Drew Carey.

1. Ands-hay off the odels-may, big guy. It didn't work out well for your predecessor :-)

2. TPIR is a game show, not a comedy show. Don't play it for laffs. You're the straight man. Some contestants will bring opportunities for comedy, but most will not. Your new co-stars are cars, refrigerators, P!inko, a litany of other pricing games, and those ever lovin' models. And that guy who says "a new caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar!".

3. Put on a disguise, hie thee to Las Vegas and see the live stage show. I'm serious. There will in all likelihood be 750 people who a) know they're not going to see Bob Barker, b) know they're not going to be on national television, and c) the chances of winning anything are remote despite having paid $50 to get in. You will see how much audiences love the show and the games that you will never see in studio 33.

Next, please.
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: BrandonFG on July 23, 2007, 06:50:17 PM
[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'158327\' date=\'Jul 23 2007, 06:47 PM\']
Next, please.
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4. Do not try and channel Bob Barker. Be yourself. Trying to be Barker could be the worst thing for the show and yourself.

5. Talk to Jay Leno...ask what he went through when he replaced Carson.
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: Joe Mello on July 23, 2007, 06:50:46 PM
6) (since we're counting) Five words that any sports fan has heard until they're sick: One Day at a Time.

Also, 7) try not to be a plank of wood.
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: tvwxman on July 23, 2007, 06:55:57 PM
[quote name=\'Joe Mello\' post=\'158329\' date=\'Jul 23 2007, 06:50 PM\']
6) (since we're counting) Five words that any sports fan has heard until they're sick: One Day at a Time.

Also, 7) try not to be a plank of wood.
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are you trying to be funny? Because your posts are making less sense by the day.

7. Study the games. Don't rely on cue cards to get you through the 100 pricing games rules. Don't be that guy.
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: chris319 on July 23, 2007, 06:56:00 PM
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5. Talk to Jay Leno...ask what he went through when he replaced Carson.
Then do the opposite.
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: TonicBH on July 23, 2007, 07:06:03 PM
Despite the audience and Rich Fields are loud and excited as hell, it does not mean you need to shout at the top of your lungs every minute. Keep yourself partially excited but low-key during certain moments.

For the love of everything that is holy, please don't follow Barker's long, excessive pauses to reveal things. If you need to hold suspense, silence can work.
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: weaklink75 on July 23, 2007, 07:22:44 PM
8-Understand that it might take a few shows to get into the groove...you don't have to hit it out of the park show #1, just make contact.

and I agree with the person who said maybe limit the game rotation until he gets his sea legs...And I also think he's saying the right things in "respecting the show". If he means what he says, he'll do OK.
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: chris319 on July 23, 2007, 07:26:44 PM
11. Put your complete faith, trust and confidence in a fellow named Roger Dobkowitz. He's been with the show for all of its 35 years. He knows his stuff.
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: Neumms on July 23, 2007, 07:34:19 PM
[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'158332\' date=\'Jul 23 2007, 05:56 PM\']
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5. Talk to Jay Leno...ask what he went through when he replaced Carson.
Then do the opposite.
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Exactly!

8. Talk to Bob. Nobody likes a grouch, and this way he can't go on saying nobody asked him his opinion. And maybe the right walk on by the old master would be a charming thing. (I'm thinking Letterman's first show on CBS, in which Tom Brokaw came to take back NBC's intellectual property. Short and funny. Maybe Bob comes and hawls home the "Barker's Bargain Bar" sign, or he could hand Drew the Plinko stick and walk off.)

9. If you skip the rules to the Showcase Showdown and Showcases, that's half a minute of potentially entertaining contestant interaction.

10. See if you can't get somebody at CBS, while you're there, to greenlight a prime-time remake of Match Game.
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: clemon79 on July 23, 2007, 07:43:46 PM
[quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'158341\' date=\'Jul 23 2007, 04:34 PM\']
And maybe the right walk on by the old master would be a charming thing.
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While it would make me vomit to see it, I'm sure his ego would be right fine with the notion.

"I heartily endorse this product and / or service."

11. If a guy comes at you brandishing a box of Pop Tarts...run.
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: chris319 on July 23, 2007, 07:52:32 PM
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9. If you skip the rules to the Showcase Showdown and Showcases, that's half a minute of potentially entertaining contestant interaction.
Can't cut emcee language, sorry. Thirty seconds of contestant interaction won't buy you much if the contestants aren't worth interacting with.
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: TimK2003 on July 23, 2007, 08:23:56 PM
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[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'158327\' date=\'Jul 23 2007, 06:47 PM\']
Next, please.
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4. Do not try and channel Bob Barker. Be yourself. Trying to be Barker could be the worst thing for the show and yourself.
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4-A. Do not try and channel Bob Barker Doug Davidson. Be yourself. Trying to be Barker Davidson could be the worst thing for the show and yourself.
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: DrBear on July 23, 2007, 09:55:11 PM
12. If there's one thing you should carry (sorry) from improv, it's that you can look great making the other person look good. That's your job now. Play off the contestant. Just remember, everybody there, in effect, is from Cleveland.
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: Clay Zambo on July 23, 2007, 10:29:49 PM
Tell somebody in charge that putting a moratorium on goofily worded T-shirts would class up the joint again.  I'm not sayin' we need suits and ties and dresses and gloves, but, y'know, just because you're the host and they're the guests doesn't mean it's a frat party.

And, yeah.  You're a host, not a star.  The game is the star.

And have a good time.
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: TheLastResort on July 23, 2007, 10:46:40 PM
First and foremost, don't eff up.
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: petek66 on July 24, 2007, 12:46:35 AM
[quote name=\'Clay Zambo\' post=\'158377\' date=\'Jul 23 2007, 09:29 PM\']
Tell somebody in charge that putting a moratorium on goofily worded T-shirts would class up the joint again.  I'm not sayin' we need suits and ties and dresses and gloves, but, y'know, just because you're the host and they're the guests doesn't mean it's a frat party.

And, yeah.  You're a host, not a star.  The game is the star.

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I think he will be reminded of that daily- I was in the audience for a Mark Steines audition show last March
and Rich Fields introduced him with "... and now here is the HOST of the Price Is Right... Mark Steines!"
Similar to how the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson became the Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: pianogeek on July 24, 2007, 01:08:35 AM
[quote name=\'petek66\' post=\'158390\' date=\'Jul 24 2007, 12:46 AM\']
I think he will be reminded of that daily- I was in the audience for a Mark Steines audition show last March
and Rich Fields introduced him with "... and now here is the HOST of the Price Is Right... Mark Steines!"
Similar to how the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson became the Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
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That reminds me.  Now that host has been announced, are we at the liberty to freely talk about the performances of the candidates who auditioned???  I'm quite curious to know the full details.

/Oh wait...I ain't at that other site.  Hehe!
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: Steve Gavazzi on July 24, 2007, 03:13:48 AM
[quote name=\'pianogeek\' post=\'158392\' date=\'Jul 24 2007, 01:08 AM\']
That reminds me.  Now that host has been announced, are we at the liberty to freely talk about the performances of the candidates who auditioned???  I'm quite curious to know the full details.

/Oh wait...I ain't at that other site.  Hehe!
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Wow.  What'd we do to piss you off?

There's a fundamental difference between Golden-Road and this place -- Golden-Road has connections with the show, and occasionally, in order to maintain those connections, and also to guard against potentially being ordered to take the site down, Marc and John have to restrict certain topics of discussion.  This is one of those cases (and truthfully, the only such case I can ever remember) -- a decision was made to try and keep the details of the auditions hushed, and our site was "asked" to comply with that decision.  I have no idea whether or not that ban will be lifted once the site comes back up, but it's not stopping anyone from discussing them here, nor was it doing so at any other point in the last nine months.

The next time you want to snark about something, make sure you actually know what you're talking about.
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: uncamark on July 24, 2007, 12:43:00 PM
Just be yourself and roll with the flow.  If the audience likes you, you'll know.

Remember, you are not the star, the show is--and won't it be nice to have the show be the star again?
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: urbanpreppie05 on July 24, 2007, 12:45:50 PM
Be yourself.

Embrace the fans, Don't mind the fanbois. Especially the singing one who is already changing the lyrics in his TPIR Songs to fit your name.
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: clemon79 on July 24, 2007, 12:47:29 PM
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Especially the singing one who is already changing the lyrics in his TPIR Songs to fit your name.
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Better yet, get that one fired.
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: SteveR on July 24, 2007, 01:19:10 PM
Remember that the "stars" of the show are the games and, most importantly, the contestants.

He already has shown he respects the show and that's a great first step.
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: tpirfan28 on July 24, 2007, 02:30:23 PM
It's been said multiple times, but it's way too important not to be mentioned again: Be yourself.  Last thing I want to see is an emulated Barker.
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: dzinkin on July 24, 2007, 02:39:12 PM
[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'158446\' date=\'Jul 24 2007, 02:30 PM\']
It's been said multiple times, but it's way too important not to be mentioned again: Be yourself.  Last thing I want to see is an emulated Barker.
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The fact is, "because that's how Bob did it" shouldn't be his reason to do something or his reason not to do something.  He'll need to make the show his own but it still has to be The Price Is Right and not The Drew Carey Plinko Show or Whose Price Is It Anyway?

Do I think he'll find the right balance?  Sure.  Do I have any specific advice for how he can do it?  Not on your life... there's a good reason why he does what he does and I do what I do. :-)
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: tvwxman on July 24, 2007, 03:05:25 PM
This isn't for Drew, but will affect his job directly.

Have the current contestant coordinators taken out back behind TV City, blindfolded, and shot. Bring in new contestant coordinators.

/OTOH, 420 jokes will no longer go whooshing over the hosts head.
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: chris319 on July 24, 2007, 03:20:47 PM
Not advice but a fact of life: when setting up the Range Game, for example, the words "the $150 range finder will move slowly up the scale" must sound as fresh the 10,000th time you say it as it does the first. Same with all of the other games. The showcase setups must sound like it's the first time.
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: TheInquisitiveOne on July 25, 2007, 12:08:42 PM
This is my first time responding to what I think is good news for CBS, TPIR, and many fans wondering when the show will begin anew. I wish Drew the best.

Back on topic, a lot of others said it best. You have to be yourself...and be prepared for adversity. The FIRST thing a lot of people will do is compare you to Bob Barker. Ignore it, and try not to imitate his works. Having your own identity is key.

Another thing previously stated: know when to be funny, and when to be serious. I personally will be turned off if you try to be funny all the time. Play off the contestants.

I hope his experience with "Power of 10" helps. With all that has unfolded, I have a greater interest fot that show.

The Inquisitive One
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: davemackey on July 25, 2007, 05:42:53 PM
[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'158466\' date=\'Jul 24 2007, 03:20 PM\']
the words "the $150 range finder will move slowly up the scale" must sound as fresh the 10,000th time you say it as it does the first[/quote]
So, too, does "We can't start it again for 37 hours."
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: JayDLewis on July 25, 2007, 07:19:12 PM
[quote name=\'davemackey\' post=\'158612\' date=\'Jul 25 2007, 04:42 PM\']
[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'158466\' date=\'Jul 24 2007, 03:20 PM\']
the words "the $150 range finder will move slowly up the scale" must sound as fresh the 10,000th time you say it as it does the first[/quote]
So, too, does "We can't start it again for 37 hours."
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Nah...now he'll ask contestants if they want to lock in that range.
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: chris319 on July 25, 2007, 10:27:24 PM
One other thing: Always root for the contestant to win, no matter how much you like or dislike the contestant.
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: Kevin Prather on July 25, 2007, 10:39:50 PM
[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'158647\' date=\'Jul 25 2007, 07:27 PM\']
One other thing: Always root for the contestant to win, no matter how much you like or dislike the contestant.
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And the fact that this even has to be said is sort of a disgrace to the game show host occupation. And yet, with Barker the past few years, it has to be said.
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: chris319 on July 26, 2007, 12:47:35 AM
[quote name=\'whoserman\' post=\'158648\' date=\'Jul 25 2007, 07:39 PM\']
[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'158647\' date=\'Jul 25 2007, 07:27 PM\']
One other thing: Always root for the contestant to win, no matter how much you like or dislike the contestant.
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And the fact that this even has to be said is sort of a disgrace to the game show host occupation. And yet, with Barker the past few years, it has to be said.
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Are you saying Barker has been rooting for contestants he doesn't like to lose?

At any rate, TPIR is different from other game shows in that every stage game is played against the house. Alex Trebek's job is not to show any favoritism among the three contestants.
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: Kevin Prather on July 26, 2007, 12:55:55 AM
[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'158669\' date=\'Jul 25 2007, 09:47 PM\']
Are you saying Barker has been rooting for contestants he doesn't like to lose?
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I guess not necessarily, but I recall at least twice where he has seemed displeased that a contestant won.
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: clemon79 on July 26, 2007, 12:57:33 AM
[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'158669\' date=\'Jul 25 2007, 09:47 PM\']
Are you saying Barker has been rooting for contestants he doesn't like to lose?
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We have certainly seen that he isn't as forgiving or willing to let contestants change their mind or whatever if they're obnoxious. He absolutely treated contestants differently from one to the next.
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: chris319 on July 26, 2007, 02:52:19 AM
I can see Barker being unforgiving of smart-ass frat bo1z. Am I correct in my perception?
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: JasonA1 on July 26, 2007, 03:07:48 AM
Actually, he's been somewhat taken with the schtick of some of them, and let them go on with it, while being REAL annoyed with some ladies who stare out into the crowd and don't understand what game they're playing.

-Jason
Title: Your Advice For Drew Carey
Post by: Robert Hutchinson on July 26, 2007, 04:04:48 PM
Not that I doubt for a moment that it was largely ego-fueled, but Barker cutting an annoying contestant short was actually a plus in my eyes.