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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: Otm Shank on June 24, 2021, 01:14:20 PM
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USA Today with their list of current celebrity hosts with an apparent inclusion criteria of current broadcast network primetime.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2021/06/22/best-and-worst-celebrity-game-show-hosts/7768169002/
For those who want to save a click:
BEST
1. Leslie Jones
2. Rob Lowe
3. Jane Lynch
4. Jimmy Kimmel (although I'd argue he was a "game show host" before becoming a "celebrity")
5. Joel McHale
6. Anthony Anderson
7. Elizabeth Banks
WORST
1. Peyton Manning ("dull at best and distracting at worst")
2. Zooey Deschanel and Michael Bolton
3. Steve Harvey ("a bit of a self-parody")
4. Jamie Foxx (namechecks Jane Krakowski, but doesn't rank her)
5. Craig Ferguson
6. Alec Baldwin
7. Michael Strahan
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But with funnier, more magnetic personalities often playing the game, Strahan falls a little flat in many episodes.
So shame on Strahan for not upstaging the celebrity guests? Is that what I'm hearing?
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Putting McHale in the Best list with Strahan in the worst is exactly why people don’t take USA Today seriously.
/Hyperbole
//But still
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Yeah...they're not getting the clicks from me.
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BEST
1. Leslie Jones
WRONG.
5. Joel McHale
NOPE.
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I'll trade Leslie and Joel for Michael and Jamie and I'll gladly pay you Tuesday. That's my $0.02.
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I think spoiler space is no longer needed for an opinion piece.
I'd drop Lowe and McHale from the top list in a heartbeat. Joel is horribly miscast here and Lowe is perfectly functional but doesn't move the needle for me.
Ferguson and Strahan move up to replace them.
I think Leslie is great on Sweep. *shrug*
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Do we count Wayne Brady as a celebrity host? Cause him, Banks (usually), and Strahan are my favorites.
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Do we count Wayne Brady as a celebrity host? Cause him, Banks (usually), and Strahan are my favorites.
I assume Brady was excluded because the writer limited this list to prime time. But I would have thought he (and Drew Carey for that matter) would have still qualified because of the nighttime specials. So it was, in my view, an oversight.
I’ll give credit to the writer for catching up on the current shows to write this list. Heck, there are a handful of them I haven’t watched yet. But I think we can all agree, this writer isn’t exactly a game show superfan who looks for the same qualities in a host that we do here.
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Do we count Wayne Brady as a celebrity host? Cause him, Banks (usually), and Strahan are my favorites.
I assume Brady was excluded because the writer limited this list to prime time. But I would have thought he (and Drew Carey for that matter) would have still qualified because of the nighttime specials. So it was, in my view, an oversight.
I’ll give credit to the writer for catching up on the current shows to write this list. Heck, there are a handful of them I haven’t watched yet. But I think we can all agree, this writer isn’t exactly a game show superfan who looks for the same qualities in a host that we do here.
If so...
Brady still gets the nod from me.
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Seeing Peyton Manning ranked after just one episode airs, coupled with Craig Ferguson placing anywhere on the "worst" list was enough for me to know they don't deserve my click through. :)
-Jason
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However, Game of Talents is night time and more recent than Match Game
But, clearly, any list without Ellen is not intended to be exhaustive.
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I mean, this coming from the same person who still thinks Executive Producer Mike Richards has been the best guest host for Jeopardy! (https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2021/03/24/jeopardy-guest-hosts-best-jennings-and-worst-oz/6979413002/) after so many other contenders have come since then makes this list suspect from the get-go.
I usually don't like dunking on the opinions of others, but this is a bad list.
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Ferguson and Strahan move up to replace them.
I think Leslie is great on Sweep. *shrug*
I love Craigy Ferg and I agree on Leslie.
That's the one ABC reboot that improves on the original. The front game is smarter. The set is attractive. Mainly the audience or computerized audience doesn't applaud as dopily and incessantly as on David Ruprecht's, and when they are overly enthusiastic, at least it's for good prize money. When it aired on Lifetime, I thought Ruprecht was earmite annoying, but now I see a spark of humanity in him and realize the writers and producers made it as dumb as it was.
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Leslie much looser than Bill Malone.
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Unpopular opinion alert:
I don’t like Craig Ferguson as a game show host.
I felt he added nothing to CNG and he isn’t much better on The Hustler, which I also felt wasn’t very well done.
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When it aired on Lifetime, I thought Ruprecht was earmite annoying, but now I see a spark of humanity in him and realize the writers and producers made it as dumb as it was.
I seem to recall you weren't a fan of Marc Summers either.
In re: Leslie, I'm not a fan. She screams during the show. The host is supposed to guide the ship, not sink it like the Titanic.
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Leslie does need to dial it down a few decibels. But that’s just how she is; can’t really change it.
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I assume Brady was excluded because the writer limited this list to prime time. But I would have thought he (and Drew Carey for that matter) would have still qualified because of the nighttime specials. So it was, in my view, an oversight.
How quickly we forget Power of 10...
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In re: Leslie, I'm not a fan. She screams during the show. The host is supposed to guide the ship, not sink it like the Titanic.
The show is very clearly a vehicle for Leslie. That's why she has the extended interviews with the teams at the top of the game, it's why there are various "store employees" for her to interact with, and it's why she does commentary on the Big Sweep and not a disembodied announcer voice.
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I assume Brady was excluded because the writer limited this list to prime time. But I would have thought he (and Drew Carey for that matter) would have still qualified because of the nighttime specials. So it was, in my view, an oversight.
How quickly we forget Power of 10...
Unfortunately, we can’t no matter how hard we try.
With No Power of 10, there’s no Drew on Price.
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It’s been 14 years. Might be time to let go of that obsession.
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It’s been 14 years. Might be time to let go of that obsession.
Not might. Is.
Regardless of how you feel about Drew’s performance as host (and to me, he hasn’t gotten a whole lot better over the years), he’s not going anywhere until he decides it’s time to step aside.
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Regardless of how you feel about Drew’s performance as host (and to me, he hasn’t gotten a whole lot better over the years), he’s not going anywhere until he decides it’s time to step aside.
And he's gained a new generation of fans who have no idea who Bob Barker is, and have never seen him host (not counting that April Fool's prank from about 2015).
/That new generation can get TF off my lawn
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I assume Brady was excluded because the writer limited this list to prime time. But I would have thought he (and Drew Carey for that matter) would have still qualified because of the nighttime specials. So it was, in my view, an oversight.
If so...
Brady still gets the nod from me.
No disagreement here.
How quickly we forget Power of 10...
Not sure whether you were meaning I forgot about Po10 or the writer of the article forgot. But the article said it was based on current prime time shows, so Po10 wouldn’t be part of this discussion.
(And that’s no disrespect toward Po10. Personally I kinda liked it and thought it deserved to be more than just a glorified screen test audition for Drew Carey. But CBS had other ideas.)
…And speaking of oversights, why isn’t Sajak on one of these lists?
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I seem to recall you weren't a fan of Marc Summers either.
Yeah, I’m not crazy about Marc Summers. I should point out that I’ve watched almost no Double Dare, however. (I was in that age bracket when Trebek’s Double Dare premiered.) My opinion is based more on WinTuition and History IQ: two dry shows, one of them awful, that Summers brought no life to.