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Offline MandDY53

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Re: Missed Hosting Opportunities
« Reply #15 on: March 27, 2017, 06:22:15 PM »
Quote from: wink87 on March 27, 2017, 07:29:59 AM
Bill Cullen was actually considered for millionaire in 1999, until it was discovered that he passed away nine years earlier. Can't remember exactly where I read that.
It was a joke Regis made during an interview.
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Re: Missed Hosting Opportunities
« Reply #16 on: March 27, 2017, 07:23:08 PM »
Quote from: MandDY53 on March 27, 2017, 06:22:15 PM
It was a joke Regis made during an interview.
Though it does get me thinking, if WWTBAM had been around in the 70s or 80s, and Cullen had been tapped to host it, would he have been a good fit for it?
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Re: Missed Hosting Opportunities
« Reply #17 on: March 27, 2017, 07:40:23 PM »
Quote from: isucgv on March 27, 2017, 08:47:05 AM
Other than an "I'll bet Bill Cullen would be good at this game" type of reference, I can't imagine anyone would have given this any serious consideration.

I'm normally not the grammar police, but man, substitute "have" everywhere you wrote "of" and it makes a lot more sense.  The expression is "would have" not "would of".

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Re: Missed Hosting Opportunities
« Reply #18 on: May 30, 2017, 12:59:05 AM »
Hugh Downs hosting Family Feud.

Seriously though, Bill Cullen hosting Password Plus after Allen stepped down would have been a better fit than Tom Kennedy.

Jim Perry would have been great on Split Second.
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Re: Missed Hosting Opportunities
« Reply #19 on: May 30, 2017, 09:56:22 AM »
Hugh Downs? I don't think so, because what made Feud so great is the humor, and the hosts have played a big part in it. Granted, Al Roker only hosted that one season of Celebrity Feud back in '08, but he wasn't funny either.
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Re: Missed Hosting Opportunities
« Reply #20 on: May 30, 2017, 11:17:21 AM »
Quote from: Teddy on May 30, 2017, 09:56:22 AM
Hugh Downs? I don't think so, because what made Feud so great is the humor, and the hosts have played a big part in it. Granted, Al Roker only hosted that one season of Celebrity Feud back in '08, but he wasn't funny either.

Richard Karn wasn't funny on feud either.
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Re: Missed Hosting Opportunities
« Reply #21 on: May 30, 2017, 03:58:32 PM »
I'd have liked to have seen a William Shatner-hosted Family Feud. Richard Dawson said that it was Shatner that Mark Goodson was considering, and rather strongly, to be host of the Feud
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Re: Missed Hosting Opportunities
« Reply #22 on: May 30, 2017, 08:16:29 PM »
I feel like switching Wayne Brady and Steve Harvey from LMAD and Family Feud wouldn't be a bad trade-off. Both can pull off the humor and wackiness of either show.

I don't really know, but I would have liked to see how Todd Newton would have done the old Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader. Just out of curiosity.
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Re: Missed Hosting Opportunities
« Reply #23 on: May 30, 2017, 08:51:45 PM »
Quote from: TPIRfan#9821 on May 30, 2017, 08:16:29 PM
I feel like switching Wayne Brady and Steve Harvey from LMAD and Family Feud wouldn't be a bad trade-off. Both can pull off the humor and wackiness of either show.

Both would be terrible fits, especially Steve. I just can't see him yelling at contestants for making a bad deal they can't control.
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Re: Missed Hosting Opportunities
« Reply #24 on: June 01, 2017, 11:25:18 AM »
Quote from: Teddy on May 30, 2017, 09:56:22 AM
Hugh Downs? I don't think so, because what made Feud so great is the humor, and the hosts have played a big part in it. Granted, Al Roker only hosted that one season of Celebrity Feud back in '08, but he wasn't funny either.


I was joking. High Downs would be way too serious for Feud.
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Re: Missed Hosting Opportunities
« Reply #25 on: June 03, 2017, 11:35:32 PM »
Quote from: someguy23475 on June 01, 2017, 11:25:18 AM

I was joking. High Downs would be way too serious for Feud.
I'm sure you were  :P
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