How Game Show Hosts Are Made

For whatever reason, while at Huck Slim rehearsal last night—we started talking about game show hosts. And I thought it would be interesting to see how game show hosts come about. Because so many of them, you don’t know anything about them except that they are game show hosts.

The answers weren’t that surprising. Please refer to my home made chart. As you can see, most of these dudes were actors. The most fascinating though was actually Regis. Regis was a talk show host. I don’t mean to say that, that is surprising. Of course, he’s famous for being a talk show host. What I mean is, his first real job in the business was as a talk show host. He sort of just sprung forth.

That’s sort of an odd thing to be. I mean, I don’t really know too many people that there desire is to be in and of itself a talk show host. But that’s what Reeg’s deal was.

A sad fact I learned was that Bert Convy died when he was 57. An interesting fact that I learned was that Richard Dawson was actually British. How do you like that? But he ran away to the U.S. when he was 14. And Truth Or Consequences was the first game show on television. It was also the first show on television. Check it out!