I was watching an episode of the 70s game show Dealer's choice on youtube.com with Bob Hastings as host and to me, he was one of the worst game show hosts of all-time because he sounded a lot like a carnival barker. Who were some others that would be worth mentioning as some of the worst hosts?

One other name that comes to mind is the first host of the current version of Family Feud, Louie Anderson. He didn't have a very good delivery and I'll always remember his signoff "Be good to your family."

Louie Anderson has to be the worst game show host ever. The guy who replaced Wink Martindale on Tic Tac Dough was bad also.

Dylan Lane - Chain Reaction
Paul Rodriguez-The Newlywed Game
Buddy Hackett-You Bet Your Life
Louie Anderson - Family Feud
Doug Davidson-The New Price Is Right
Gordon Elliott-To Tell The Truth
Rip Taylor-The $1.98 Beauty Show
John Davidson-Any Game Show he hosted
Ross Shafer-Match Game
Jon "Bowzer" Bauman-Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour
Rolf Benrschke-Wheel Of Fortune

Dylan Lane - Chain Reaction
Paul Rodriguez-The Newlywed Game
Buddy Hackett-You Bet Your Life
Louie Anderson - Family Feud
Doug Davidson-The New Price Is Right
Gordon Elliott-To Tell The Truth
Rip Taylor-The $1.98 Beauty Show
John Davidson-Any Game Show he hosted
Ross Shafer-Match Game
Jon "Bowzer" Bauman-Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour
Rolf Benrschke-Wheel Of Fortune
Rolf is a good one. I totally forgot about him.

Steve Harvey-Millionaire (guest host),Family Feud:he's the reason why I stopped watching Feud in 2010 just after 6 episodes. also he's a bigoted-racist jerk, doesn't care about the families, doesn't care about the gameplay, butchers some of the traditional elements that other "Feud" host obtain and he's tries too hard to be funny even though he's not, and his personality for the show is even more faker that Paris Hilton, also I feel that this version is more about him than the contestants and has ruined the once-beloved franchise with him doing these fake out poses on these "shock value" answers from his contestants for which get's very irritating, he's not smart at all, and he uses ghetto slang way too much (EX: Yo Mama jumped out Da Cake, they be eatin' moose, etc.)acting like this show is for BET instead of syndication so in conclusion viewers for Harvey's Feud is just for blacks,sexual offenders, perverts, and pedofiles since that version encourages sexual questions and answers a lot of times.


Shandi Finnessey-Lingo,PlayMania,quiznation,100 Winners:a very egotistical B*TCH who has ruined the careers of Chuck Woolery on Lingo and Mel Peachey on PlayMania for whom I thank god that she doesn't work at GSN anymore.

Louie Anderson has to be the worst game show host ever. The guy who replaced Wink Martindale on Tic Tac Dough was bad also.


Jim Caldwell or Patrick "YOUUUUUUUUUU WINNNNNNNNNNNN!" Wayne?

Dylan Lane - Chain Reaction
Paul Rodriguez-The Newlywed Game
Buddy Hackett-You Bet Your Life
Louie Anderson - Family Feud
Doug Davidson-The New Price Is Right
Gordon Elliott-To Tell The Truth
Rip Taylor-The $1.98 Beauty Show
John Davidson-Any Game Show he hosted
Ross Shafer-Match Game
Jon "Bowzer" Bauman-Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour
Rolf Benrschke-Wheel Of Fortune

That list explains it all there!

A few more....

Sherri Shepherd - The Newlywed Game
Carnie Wilson - The Newlywed Game
Elaine Joyce - The Dating Game

does William Shatner-Show Me The Money count?

Jim Caldwell or Patrick "YOUUUUUUUUUU WINNNNNNNNNNNN!" Wayne?
Jim Caldwell (I couldn't remember his name).

Richard Karn(Al Borland of Home Improvement) of The Family Feud

Richard Karn(Al Borland of Home Improvement) of The Family Feud

He was better than Louie Anderson and Steve Harvey.

Steve Harvey-Millionaire (guest host),Family Feud:he's the reason why I soppted watching Feud in 2010. also he's a bigoted-racist jerk, doesn't care about the families, doesn't care about the gameplay, butchers some of the traditonal elements that other "Feud" host obtain and he's tries too hard to be funny even though he's not, and his personality for the show is even more faker that Paris Hilton, also I feel like this version is more abut him than the contestants and has ruined the once-beloved franchise with him doing these fake out poses for which get's very irritating, he's not smart at all, and he uses ghetto slang way too much (EX: Yo Mama jumped out Da Cake, they be eatin' moose)acting like this show is for BET instead of syndication and this version viewers is just for blacks,sexual offenders, perverts, and pedofiles since that version encourages sexual questions and answers a lot of times.


I am a HUGE Steve Harvey fan, from waaaay back (The Steve Harvey Show!), but I have to agree with each and everything you said. Steve IS NOT FUNNY on Family Fued because he is totally, completely and immorally out of place on this show. This is a middle America family type show and his humor is ghetto-style based humor. He is a very talented performer - but not here. He is funny enough to make you crack a rib laughing - but not here. Here, he is just a homie jester trying to be funny with jokes a majority of his audience has NO CHANCE of finding amusing. He is NOT a cross over artist. He is best appreciated by inner-city urban residents that get his inside "hood jokes" and blatant, hard to figure out "ghetto slang." So from a Steve Harvey fan to you - you are 100% correct. Here, he is among the very worst of the worst - EVER.

I am a HUGE Steve Harvey fan, from waaaay back (The Steve Harvey Show!), but I have to agree with each and everything you said. Steve IS NOT FUNNY on Family Fued because he is totally, completely and immorally out of place on this show. This is a middle America family type show and his humor is ghetto-style based humor. He is a very talented performer - but not here. He is funny enough to make you crack a rib laughing - but not here. Here, he is just a homie jester trying to be funny with jokes a majority of his audience has NO CHANCE of finding amusing. He is NOT a cross over artist. He is best appreciated by inner-city urban residents that get his inside "hood jokes" and blatant, hard to figure out "ghetto slang." So from a Steve Harvey fan to you - you are 100% correct. Here, he is among the very worst of the worst - EVER.

THANK GOD YOU UNDERSTAND MY PAIN CLEVERFUN3000, It's like you can see inside my mind for the main reason why that I can't continue on being a "FEUD" fan anymore. I wish that the people at GSN's Message Boards, Buzzerblog and all "Feud" fans across America would understand that but they never will.

and really I though you were going to offended him but i'm totally suprised
that you agree with me and I appreciate it.

but don't get me wrong I loved Family Feud but I know for most people they grew up with the late Richard Dawson but as for me since i was born in 1985I grew up with Ray Combs and I think I was exposed to Richard Dawson in 1994 when he didn't kissed female contestants on the lips since he was married and he promised his daughter that the only women that he's allowed to kiss is his wife Gretchen Johnson who was a former Feud contestant in 1981 but anyway i also remember watching Louie Anderson's version now granted he wasn't the greatest Feud host of all-time but at least he didn't tell the families saying "That was the suckiest answer ever" and Richard Karn and John O'Hurley was okay as well but back to Harvey, I originally wanted to like this version of Feud since I remember that I use to like him hosting Showtime At The Apollo in syndication on the weekends and Steve Harvey's Big Time and Big Time Challenge on The WB back in the day when he had the fade and he was cool but now since he's just a washed-up, bald-headed dick I can't seem to enjoy him anymore so after I watch Wheel of Fortune on WFMY News 2 at 7:00 PM at 7:30 I play Wheel of Fortune on the Wii just for practice game purposes.

his jump to the game show bandwagon started when he guest hosted Millionaire for one week in 2008 and just sucked balls at it he wasn't really smart at all and what's really disappointing is that in one of those episodes he did referenced the currrent host Meredith Vieira which is fine by me but
he blantanly forgot Regis Philbin who hosted the ABC Primetime version of the show three times before Meredith stepped in doing the syndie version 2002 it's like having a celebrity guest host on The Weakest Link remembing George Gray instead of Anne Robinson you just don't do that, also at that
time he was being parodied by Keenan Thompson on SNL at that time.

but all in all I'm maybe be a black person but unlike Steve on the Feud i'm not an "IGNORANT" black person.

P.S. IMO, I think Cedric The Entertainer, D.L. Hughley or David Alan Grier would have been a better choice as the first permanent African-American Feud host that Steve Harvey. Heck, I would have beeen a better African-American host of Family Feud than Steve Harvey. Don't you agree cleverfun3000?

Jim Caldwell (I couldn't remember his name).


well I'm glad i could be your help Lakeboy.

He was better than Louie Anderson and Steve Harvey.


definitely agree with you on the latter Zoneboy!

I'm surprised no one mentioned Pat Bullard!

He had 4 game shows and all of them lasted less than a full season.

He hosted 3 American game shows (Love Connection 1998-99, Hold Everything! (Summer 1990 series) and Card Sharks 2001), plus a little known game show in his native Canada called Baloney and that show also lasted less than a full season there too.

Pat Bullard is the kind of host that comes off as really smug (especially on CS 2001).

Jim Caldwell - at least on Top Card he was much better on there b/c he didn't have any big shoes to fill like he did on TTD.

Kevin Pollack - the way he carried himself after that coupled got shafted big-time on The Money Drop put his sorry butt on this list.

Chris Wylde - He hosted Spike TV's Taboo and on there he broke the #1 cardinal rule a host should never do...and that's upstage their contestants.

Phil Moore - an annoying tool on every show he hosted. Fake, hip-acting dude.

Nick Spano - Was an absolute douche on Peer Pressure. And his co-host Valeria Rae Miller didn't help matters either with her hosting there.

Rick Schwartz - monotonous and unfeeling as host of FOX's pile of monkey crap called The Chamber.

Blake Edmonds/Emmons - there's a pretty darn good reason why he was yanked off as host of The New Chain Reation after a few weeks into that version's run in 1986 and replaced by Geoff Edwards. Edmonds/Emmons absolutely stunk hosting behind that podium.

Skip Lackey-Think Fast!

Hannah Peckham,Jessica York,Angelle Tymon, Jeff Thisted-PlayMania,100 Winners, quiznation

Dave Attell-The Gong Show

Brooke Burns-Dog Eat Dog, Hole In The Wall (FOX),You Deserve It (as reporter)

Rossi Morreale-Temptation

John Bauman-The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour, The Pop N' Rocker Game

Richard Karn(Al Borland of Home Improvement) of The Family Feud


he also was the host of GSN's Bingo America along with Diane Mizota for it's 2nd and final season in 2008


oh and speaking of that

Patrick Duffy-Bingo America (1st season)

@let'swatchtv. The only things I can say I totally agree with you are the facts you originally posted about Steve Harvey being a terrible, awful and unfunny host of family feud. I never, ever liked the show or it's silly concept: and seeing Steve Harvey's ghetto clown act just made an awful show worse. There are places in movies and on televison (read: The Wayans Brothers) where "cooning" is acceptable. . .but not here. No, not here.

@let'swatchtv. The only things I can say I totally agree with you are the facts you originally posted about Steve Harvey being a terrible, awful and unfunny host of family feud. I never, ever liked the show or it's silly concept: and seeing Steve Harvey's ghetto clown act just made an awful show worse. There are places in movies and on televison (read: The Wayans Brothers) where "cooning" is acceptable. . .but not here. No, not here.


@cleverfan3000. i apperciate you concern for understanding my problem with Harvey game show hosting skills for the Feud (which IMO are terrible mind you) including the "cooning" thing. but the way I've seen this post i'm assuming that your not a fan of Family Feud with any of the host (including you know who) and to an even lesser extent Al Roker (Celebrity Family Feud/NBC 2008) also i really wanted to put Ricki Lakein this description since she did hosted in the championship finale on CBS's Game$how Marathon in 2006 but it wouldn't count anyway.

There's this great site called Game Show Garbage, which chronicles the absolute worst that game shows of the past have to offer:
http://www.gameshowgarbage.com/inductions.html

Sherri Shepherd stinks on The Newlywed Game. Carnie Wilson wasn't any better but she was a bit more tolerable. Sherri is just boring and even though the original's questions were risque, this new version is all about sex and has less a variety of questions than the first one did. Even the couples are boring; for the most part all young, good-looking people. There's no middle-aged or senior newlyweds out there?

I also agree about Dylan Lane on Chain Reaction. There's no spark or personality, and again, all the contestants are young and good-looking.

Come on, these are game shows, not CW soap operas. If Price is Right, Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune can have contestants from all backgrounds, shapes and sizes, these ones on cable can too.

There's this great site called Game Show Garbage, which chronicles the absolute worst that game shows of the past have to offer:
http://www.gameshowgarbage.com/inductions.html


yeah and Robert Q. Seidelman is the moderator i heard and seen it
and it's worth something.

The Newlywed Game.this new version is all about sex and has less a variety of questions than the first one did.


yeah, but that's nothing compared to Steve Harvey's Family Feud (for which i stopped watching in 2010 after 6 episodes BTW)


also for worst game show host, i nominate...


Edd "Kookie" Byrnes-Wheel of Fortune (1974 Pilot)

he also was the host of GSN's Bingo America along with Diane Mizota for it's 2nd and final season in 2008


oh and speaking of that

Patrick Duffy-Bingo America (1st season)i used to think that patrick duffy would make a great game show host because he was always so funny on talk shows but he was awful on bingo america

He was better than Louie Anderson and Steve Harvey.thats for sure

i used to think that patrick duffy would make a great game show host because he was always so funny on talk shows but he was awful on bingo america


WOW I never thought of that at all 70s show watcher. but he is still a great actor way more than a game show host i mean come on he was Bobby freakin' Ewing from Dallas and that dad from Step By Step for pete's sake man.

oh and BTW the part that said "he was also the host of Bingo America along with Diane Mizota for it 2nd and final season in 2008" I was referring to
Richard Karn who replaced Patrick Duffy while Diane Mizota replaced Crystal Wallasch from season 1 of BA.

thats for sure


is their anything "BAD" that youu want to say about...

Al Roker-Celebrity Family Feud

or

Ricki Lake-Game$how Marathon

or

Danny Bonaduce-Starface

or

Carrie Ann Inaba-1 vs. 100 (GSN version)


oh I forgot to tell you cleverfun3000 on one more thing about Steve Harvey of Feud and that is he is a Male-Chavinistic Pig as well.

doug davidson better than drew carey

doug davidson better than drew carey



hate to be an idiot asking you this but why?

and I may not be a huge fan of TPIR but i'll say that Tom Kennedy and Dennis James are better TPIR host than Doug Davidson and Drew Carey
will ever be.

hate to be an idiot asking you this but why?

and I may not be a huge fan of TPIR but i'll say that Tom Kennedy and Dennis James are better TPIR host than Doug Davidson and Drew Carey
will ever be.

Just my opinion I liked doug's new price is right and drew got me to stop watching

Just my opinion I liked doug's new price is right and drew got me to stop watching



I'm guessing that Drew's "Boring" personality made you stop watching the show right?

How many episodes of Dealer's Choice did Bob Hastings host before Jack Clark replaced him? I agree on Buddy Hackett, by the way. He was no Groucho.

your talking about the 1980-1981 Buddy Hackett revival of You Bet Your Life right?

anyway did you know that their was a 1992-1993 revival of YBYL that was produced by Carsey-Werner and was hosted by Bill Cosby?



also I don't know how many episodes that Bob Hastings hosted Dealer's Choice from the first few weeks of the series but I went to Wikipedia
and according to the page I heard that the total of episodes combined with
Bob Hastings & Jack Clark produced were 210.

TPIR best to worst:
Barker
Kennedy
Carey
Davidson
James

FF best to worst:
Combs
O'Hurley
Dawson
Anderson
Karn
Harvey

hey Nigelwick, what about Cullen? where does he rank as best or worst TPIR host?

Huge Bill Cullen fan, but you can't compare his show to the 1972 version. He will always be my favorite.

Huge Bill Cullen fan, but you can't compare his show to the 1972 version. He will always be my favorite.


right because in the original TPIR from the 50's they only had the IUFB thing while the 1972-present version of TPIR had not only IUFB but also Pricing Games, the Big Wheel/Showcase Showdown and of course the Showcase itself if i'm not mistaken.

but who will be your favorite NigelWick Cullen or Barker?

TPIR? Barker.
Bill Cullen improved everything he touched.

TPIR? Barker.
Bill Cullen improved everything he touched.


Figures!

Hands down, the worst emcees IMO were:

1 Louie Anderson
2 John Davidson
3 Mike Darrow
4 Chris Wylde
5 Jon Bauman

does Jim Caldwell from Tic Tac Dough count as well?

Jim Caldwell (I couldn't remember his name).

Remember, the red boxes are special categories!

I have to take issue with the Jon Bauman votes. I've seen worse than him, and remember, he was just a rookie when he was asked to FILL PETER FREAKIN' MARSHALL'S SHOES. Then again, I might be nostalgic for the days MG/HS would be on after school.

And while I don't hate Steve Harvey, I think him, and his version of Feud, are overrated, no matter what the ratings say and how much Buzzerblog kisses his butt. His success hosting the show will always come with an asterisk by it, saying that Feud had to go TV-14 to get over. Give me Richard and Ray any day (and Marco from the Spanish version)!

Drew I don't mind as much as the Barkerites out there do, and I still watch Price. But I wish Tom Kennedy was in his prime and not retired...despite what he said, he was good on the nighttime Price.

And while I don't hate Steve Harvey, I think him, and his version of Feud, are overrated, no matter what the ratings say and how much Buzzerblog kisses his butt. His success hosting the show will always come with an asterisk by it, saying that Feud had to go TV-14 to get over. Give me Richard and Ray any day (and Marco from the Spanish version)!


dude I so agree with you on Harvey and his version of Feud and if you don't hate him on the feud (unlike me) that's ok too. but even though i don't continue watching the show because of you know who. it really makes me sick to my stomach on how people on the internet worship him like he's Jesus Freakin' Christ even though in reality he's not. Feud use to be appointment television for me but since baldy took over that ugly-as-heck twin tower looking face-off podium of his in 2010 I can't continue on to worshiping the ground the show has walked on and besides minus the survey board since it was a carry over from the Roker/O'Hurley era, the face-off podiums and the family podiums suck balls and it's got to be one of the most ugliest Family Feud set of any incarnation I have ever seen in my life the best looking one in my opinion will always and forever until the end of is the 1988-1994 Combs era but the 2nd would be 1994-1995 Dawson 2.0 Era and 3rd will be 1999-2002 Anderson era.

Has Pat Bullard from Love Connection '98 and Card Sharks '01 has been mentioned in this thread yet guys?

Game Show Garbage is the first place that I would go to get a better idea over who could be considered the "worst game show hosts ever":
http://www.gameshowgarbage.com/gsginductions.html

Game Show Garbage is the first place that I would go to get a better idea over who could be considered the "worst game show hosts ever":


I think we're just as capable of determining who ranks among the worst hosts as anyone at that site.

Could you please post a link to some actual discussion about the worst game show hosts from the 48 knowledgeable members of that site. :lol: I tried to find some using the search feature but had no luck.

But seriously, does anybody remember the Bullard era of Love Connection from 1998?

Mark De Carlo from Fox's "Big Deal". Dreadful DREADFUL remake of "Let's Make a Deal" and De Carlo just was an obnoxious host.

Jackie Gleason. "The Great One" hosted 1 episode of a flop of a show called "You're In The Picture". Gleason was SENSATIONAL in everything he did, except hosting a game.

Agreed too about William Shatner on "Show Me The Money". Such dreck...

Arte Johnson on "Knockout" wasn't all that hot either to me...

I respectfully disagree about Dennis James and Rolf Benirschke being bad. Dennis had a kind of rapid fire personality and he may have come across as gruff at times, but he genuinely seemed to care if a contestant won or lost. He did seem to want to get to the showcases A.S.A.P. Rolf had a very easy-going style to him which suited "Wheel of Fortune". Sadly, he'll always be remembered for not knowing what to do when a tie took place. I'm not sure why that wasn't edited. I thought Rolf did fine, sadly he wasn't given much of a chance. I did very much like Bob Goen as host too on "Wheel". It's a pity he's not hosting a game show today. I always thought he would be very well suited to host a daytime version of "Password".

Mark De Carlo from Fox's "Big Deal". Dreadful DREADFUL remake of "Let's Make a Deal" and De Carlo just was an obnoxious host.

Jackie Gleason. "The Great One" hosted 1 episode of a flop of a show called "You're In The Picture". Gleason was SENSATIONAL in everything he did, except hosting a game.

Agreed too about William Shatner on "Show Me The Money". Such dreck...

Arte Johnson on "Knockout" wasn't all that hot either to me...

I respectfully disagree about Dennis James and Rolf Benirschke being bad. Dennis had a kind of rapid fire personality and he may have come across as gruff at times, but he genuinely seemed to care if a contestant won or lost. He did seem to want to get to the showcases A.S.A.P. Rolf had a very easy-going style to him which suited "Wheel of Fortune". Sadly, he'll always be remembered for not knowing what to do when a tie took place. I'm not sure why that wasn't edited. I thought Rolf did fine, sadly he wasn't given much of a chance. I did very much like Bob Goen as host too on "Wheel". It's a pity he's not hosting a game show today. I always thought he would be very well suited to host a daytime version of "Password".

you know speaking of Mr. Benirschke I describe him for hositng the Daytime Wheel as the shy kid in the classroom who's afraid of talking in front of his classmate when it comes to show n' tell and he did mention once on E! True Hollywood Story that he never watched WOF in his life but only snippets here and there

but If I were Merv Griffin, I would have picked Bill Rafferty to do that daytime Wheel over Benirschke since he did do Every Second Counts, Card Sharks and Blockbusters. and speaking of Card Sharks his behavior kind of reminded me of Sajak's behavior on Wheel.

Has Pat Bullard from Love Connection '98 and Card Sharks '01 has been mentioned in this thread yet guys?

I mentioned it some posts ago.

I mentioned it some posts ago.

Oh ok, well i mean the gameplay was the same as the original Woolery version, but the charm just wasn't the same like the Woolery era.

you know what I mean?

Oh ok, well i mean the gameplay was the same as the original Woolery version, but he charm just wasn't the same like the Woolery era.

you know what I mean?

True, but if you take away Love Connection and watch him his three other game show shows, he comes as an annoying schmuck who seems to be there just for the checks.

True, but if you take away Love Connection and watch him his three other game show shows, he comes as an annoying schmuck who seems to be there just for the checks.

sometimes that is the truth, also you may not have heard about this but in Canada i've heard that he hosted a short-lived 1988-1989 game show on CBC called Baloney!

sometimes that is the truth, also you may not have heard about this but in Canada i've heard that he hosted a short-lived 1988-1989 game show on CBC called Baloney!

And even on there I heard he was awful too.

I did very much like Bob Goen as host too on "Wheel". It's a pity he's not hosting a game show today. I always thought he would be very well suited to host a daytime version of "Password".

Unless you're talking about Super Password "IF" of course NBC decided to "FIRE" Convy and replace Goen at the time.

and speaking of Goen, his "sort-of" semi game show comeback was on GSN's That's the Question based on the dutch format for two seasons from 2006 to 2007 and he has hosted Family Feud Live! from various times here and there.

TPIR? Barker.
Bill Cullen improved everything he touched.
I agree. I loved Bill Cullen. I found Bob Barker a little condescending and ALOT annoying. But I'm sure there are many who are gaga over Barker. But that Bill - a class act all the way.

I agree. I loved Bill Cullen. I found Bob Barker a little condescending and ALOT annoying. But I'm sure there are many who are gaga over Barker. But that Bill - a class act all the way.

Yeah, even on stinkers like Child's Play, Blockbusters and Hot Potato just to name a few.

Cedric the Entertainer as host of Millionaire. He looks ridiculous in that suit and pimp hat.

Louie Anderson as host of Family Feud even if it was under his time when they increased the prize from $10,000 to 20,000.

Cedric the Entertainer as host of Millionaire. He looks ridiculous in that suit and pimp hat.

Louie Anderson as host of Family Feud even if it was under his time when they increased the prize from $10,000 to $20,000.

well granted Louie Anderson may have not been the next Richard Dawson or Ray Combs, but to be fair he did help bring the franchise back on its feet a little bit. Am I right?

and you are also right with the increase of he Fast Money round on Feud. from 1999-2000 they played for $10,000. but in 2001 they increased the amount to $20,000 so I think that's what your talking about.