OPO: Game Show Host

(I really like Trebek too, but I think I'd love "Jeopardy!" even more if Meredith Vieira hosted that program. Vieira is my favorite game show host EVER, obv.)

Monty Hall turned 95 yesterday. With luck he & his wife will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary next year.

My answer for the thread however is Garry Moore of I've Got a Secret: articulate, cool, real-seeming, and always down to perform physical stunts on the show. And I know smoking is terrible but there's something badass about him having a cig in his hand *at all times*

i am quite addicted to watching youtubes of Steve Harvey doing Family Feud

Garry Moore was great. Buzzr runs a late block of the black & white-era panel shows every weeknight and it's done wonders for my Mad Men withdrawal.

Wink Martindale

Another vote for Guy Smiley.

There was the one IGAS episode where Moore was demonstrating some large contraption and iirc his thumb got caught in it--he starts freaking out, smash cut to commercial (which is retained when it's aired today), and when they get back he calmly explains that his digit was lightly crushed.

i am quite addicted to watching youtubes of Steve Harvey doing Family Feud

the video of his mental breakdown is pretty good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIwAyvoGLu0

the answer is groucho, of course

There was the one IGAS episode where Moore was demonstrating some large contraption and iirc his thumb got caught in it--he starts freaking out, smash cut to commercial (which is retained when it's aired today), and when they get back he calmly explains that his digit was lightly crushed

I saw this episode the other day! Once you realize it's not a joke it's a terrifying moment. You'd think this would be remembered as one of the all-time tragic game show mishaps. And when they come back from commercial his finger's all bandaged up. I think it was his smoking hand too.

They showed another episode from the same year I believe, 1962, where Garry Moore has to kill some time, so he goes up into the control room and introduces every member of the crew (shades of Dave Letterman)… and then he sits down at a drum kit and starts jamming on some tune with the band - and he's a really good drummer!

Oh wow, Buzzr rn is showing To Tell The Truths from 1970: Peggy Mass has been railing against feminists, and Bill Cullen just made a joke about hitting his wife w/a McSorley's mug.

Earlier they had the guy who produced the legendary scam album The Best of Marcel Marceao (and later was responsible for "Apache" by The Incredible Bongo Band and Nixon's second inaugural) as a contestant!