Favorite / least favorite game show hosts

[J_Dee]

I visited an aunt yesterday and she was watching re-runs of Chain Reaction that she'd recorded. The host, Dylan Lane, seems like a super good guy, but just to me personally, he's got the charisma of a rock.

I grew up with Wheel of Fortune at 7:00 on winter weekdays followed by Jeopardy! at 7:30. The awesomeness of Pat Sajak (and Vanna White) followed by Alex Trebek is a hard one-two punch to top -- they were both always very well-spoken, and never slow with a clever quip. I'd watch post-Alex Trebek Jeopardy! every once in a while if LeVar Burton was the host. Ken Jennings is cool but I find him about as dull as Dylan Lane.

My grandpa always watched Bob Barker on The Price is Right on break from working on the farm, and I remember watching Family Feud with them when I was a kid. I liked Richard Dawson and Ray Combs (who kept a houseboat on Lake Cumberland) a lot, and later Steve Harvey (even though he was a little over-the-top at times -- he'd often milk funny responses for all they were worth).

I can only just barely remember Remote Control, but I thought that Kari Wuhrer was adorable.

Anyway, favorite and least favorite game show hosts -- show me what you got!

 

[WildcatFan1982]

Richard Dawson is the GOAT IMO. And I’m too young to have really watched him. Just like watching funny videos of him on YouTube. And of course

 

[812scottj]

Dawson was great….Steve Harvey is unwatchable

 

[Dirt Sammich]

Drew Carey has to be on the list for least favorite

 

[HymanKaplan]

Dawson was great….Steve Harvey is unwatchable

Bob Barker is the GOAT, obviously, but Trebek is also an icon.

In terms of hilarity, I'm going to disagree with you, Steve Harvery on Family Feud was pretty funny. Ray Combs was really good, but Dawson was just a rapey drunk.

 

[GeraldV]

I’m 51, so Bob Barker was right in my time frame and easily was the GOAT to me.

I didn’t like Ray Combs or Louie Anderson either one on the Feud.

 

[HymanKaplan]

The mind-boggling thing about Barker, is that even BEFORE TPIR, he'd already had a HOF career.

 

[DreadLox]

Favorite: Stephen Fry / QI
Least: Chuck Barris

 

[812scottj]

Wink Martindale!! Chuck Woolery…..we’ve had some good ones through the years!

 

[CaptainBoogerBuns]

The mind-boggling thing about Barker, is that even BEFORE TPIR, he'd already had a HOF career.

Truth or Consequences

 

[bigbluedon]

Bob Barker was awesome. Steve Harvey is an asshole and is unwatchable.

 

[WildcatFan1982]

Who hosted Supermarket Sweep?

 

[mailman85]

Kentucky's own Chuck Woolery is up there but hard to argue against Bob Barker

 

[catfanbrad]

Brooke Burns from Dog Eat Dog

 

[the nail at the foul line]

I visited an aunt yesterday and she was watching re-runs of Chain Reaction that she'd recorded. The host, Dylan Lane, seems like a super good guy, but just to me personally, he's got the charisma of a rock.

I grew up with Wheel of Fortune at 7:00 on winter weekdays followed by Jeopardy! at 7:30. The awesomeness of Pat Sajak (and Vanna White) followed by Alex Trebek is a hard one-two punch to top -- they were both always very well-spoken, and never slow with a clever quip. I'd watch post-Alex Trebek Jeopardy! every once in a while if LeVar Burton was the host. Ken Jennings is cool but I find him about as dull as Dylan Lane.

My grandpa always watched Bob Barker on The Price is Right on break from working on the farm, and I remember watching Family Feud with them when I was a kid. I liked Richard Dawson and Ray Combs (who kept a houseboat on Lake Cumberland) a lot, and later Steve Harvey (even though he was a little over-the-top at times -- he'd often milk funny responses for all they were worth).

I can only just barely remember Remote Control, but I thought that Kari Wuhrer was adorable.

Anyway, favorite and least favorite game show hosts -- show me what you got!

Marisol Massey was the first female sidekick on remote control.

 

[christophero]

Richard Dawson for me. Pat Sajak is annoying.