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The Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Game Show Host is one of the performance awards awarded annually at the Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony. Game show hosts that host daytime or syndicated game shows are eligible for the award.
The now-retired Bob Barker has won more awards in this category than any other host, with 14.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Bob Barker
Lois Under $20 Of Oregon said:
That would be Bob Barker, beloved host of "The Price Is
Right" for well over a century, and who even though he made
a fine living pandering to the unfettered greed-induced
consumerism which has reduced our human condition to a vile,
base, dollar value, redeemed himself by working tirelessly
as an animal rights activist. Here he is, pictured with two
very large ungulates whom he endeavored to aid in their
careers.
Adam answered:
I'm just going to guess Bob Barker.
But it could be someone like Alan Ludden.
Charlie wrote:
It might be suggested that "Outstanding Game Show Host" is an oxymoron, but I used to watch plenty of them, so I won't.
Bob Barker.
Marian replied:
Bob Barker
DJ Useo responded:
Ooh, that hurt my brain. I was sure I knew his name, but my memory wasn't giving me the info. Then, I heard a dog outside, and it came back to me! Bob Barker!
I've seen him quite a few times, and although he was ok, he didn't have any strong appeal to me a host. I suppose I was spoiled by Groucho, and "YOU BET YOUR LIFE". Now there was a host that lured me back by being entertaining.
Sally said:
The skirt-chasing Bob Barker has won the most Daytime Emmy's for Outstanding Game Show Host.
Here's the lecherous old guy in his game-show action. Humph!
PS: I never could get into game shows, don't know why - but I think it was in part because of the hosts...
PPS: Imagine my morning care kids laughing so hard when telling these joke that their juice is coming out of their noses:
What does the clown with two left feet wear to the beach?
His flip, flips of course...
(Think about it...)
Oh, yeah, the clown with two right feet - his flop, flops naturally...
Two cannibals eat a clown, and one turns to the other and asks: Does this taste funny to you???
Ka boom!
@Lois, what do you think?? :)
Dale of Diamond springs, Norcali, responded:
Bob Barker has won more awards than any other host, with 14. Wow! Good ole ass grabbing Bob. Barker's Beauties would get fired if they got preggers.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, took the day off.
MAM wrote:
Bob Barker ~ Best known for hosting CBS's 'The Price Is Right' from 1972 to 2007.
1975 2009
BttbBob answered:
"Oh, I suppose..." Moment - Oh, I suppose it's Bob Barker... although I'll assert that hadn't Alan Ludden died young (and I'll assert, too, 63 is young), he might have given ol' Bob a run fer that there title. Al had a better 'presence', IMO, certainly was more erudite and worked that in well within the format and genre (Ol' Al had a M.A. in English with Phi Beta Kappa honors for his B.A. dontcha know)... Oh, I suppose one could make of that a 'What Coulda Been' Moment.
~~~~~
Memo to Charlie: Yeah, "The Small Faces" crossed my mind but the thought evaporated when I brought up the video of "Humble Pie" and played it - Loud.
Anywho, here's a "Mod" kinda blast-from-the-past fer ya...
And, Joe S said:
First guess is (tada) Bob Barker. Carla concurs. Let's open up the Googles, Marty, and see what they say. We were right! It's Bob Barker with 14! That's a lot of Emmys let me tell ya. Old Bob did have some perks.
The only game show I watch is Jeopardy and sometimes I can stay awake for the whole half hour.
Mostly overcast with seasonally appropriate temperatures.
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'2 Broke Girls', followed by a RERUN'Mom', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Chicago Fire', followed by a RERUN'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon'.
'SNL' is FRESH, with Melissa McCarthy hosting, music by Imagine Dragons.
ABC starts the night with the movie 'Blades Of Glory', followed by '20/20'.
The CW offers an old 2½ Men', followed by another old '2½ Men', then an old 'Family Guy', followed by another old 'Family Guy'.
Faux has the FRESH'2014 NFL Honors'.
MY has an old 'Burn Notice', followed by another old 'Burn Notice'.
A&E has 3 hours of old 'Bad Ink', 'Don't Trust Andrew Mayne', and another 'Don't Trust Andrew Mayne'.
AMC offers the movie 'Braveheart', followed by the movie 'Invincible', then the movie 'Invincible', again.
BBC -
[6:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 3
[7:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 4
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 2 - Ep 1 - Revisited: La Riviera
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 4 - Flamangos
[10:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 8 - Lido Di Manhattan Beach
[11:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 12 - Charlie's
[12:00PM] DOCTOR WHO: THE RUNAWAY BRIDE
[1:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 3 - Ep 10 - Blink
[2:00PM] DOCTOR WHO: VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED
[3:00PM] DOCTOR WHO: THE WATERS OF MARS
[4:00PM] FLEMING: THE MAN WHO WOULD BE BOND-Episode 1
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 11 - Data's Day
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 12 - The Wounded
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 13 - Devil's Due
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 14 - Clues
[9:00PM] ATLANTIS - Season 1 - Episode 11 NEW
[10:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 14 - Episode 15 NEW
[11:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 14 - Clues
[12:00AM] ATLANTIS - Season 1 - Episode 11
[1:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 14 - Episode 15
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 11 - Data's Day
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 12 - The Wounded
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 13 - Devil's Due
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 14 - Clues (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has the movie 'The Bourne Identity', then the movie 'The Bourne Identity', again.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Superbad', followed by the movie 'Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World', then the movie 'Superbad'.
FX has the movie 'Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen', followed by the movie 'Transformers: Dark Of The Moon'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
[8:30AM] The Three Stooges-They Stooge to Conga
[8:55AM] The Three Stooges-Three Dumb Clucks
[9:20AM] The Three Stooges-Three Little Beers
[9:45AM] The Three Stooges-Three Little Sew and Sews
[10:10AM] The Three Stooges-Three Little Twirps
[10:35AM] The Three Stooges-Three Missing Links
[11:00AM] The Spoils of Babylon-The Rise of the Empire
[11:30AM] The Spoils of Babylon-The Age of the Bastard
[12:00PM] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
[2:30PM] Close Encounters of the Third Kind
[5:30PM] Hannibal Rising
[8:00PM] The Silence of the Lambs
[10:45PM] The Silence of the Lambs
[1:30AM] The Shining
[4:30AM] The Spoils of Babylon-Kicking the Habit
[5:00AM] The Spoils of Babylon-The Rise of the Empire
[5:30AM] The Spoils of Babylon-The Age of the Bastard (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Shrink
[8:15AM] Cry Baby
[10:00AM] Pan's Labyrinth
[12:30PM] Dragonslayer
[3:00PM] Law & Order-Black Tie
[4:00PM] Law & Order-Pride and Joy
[5:00PM] Law & Order-Apocrypha
[6:00PM] Law & Order-American Dream
[7:00PM] Law & Order-Born Bad
[8:00PM] Law & Order-The Pursuit of Happiness
[9:00PM] The Red Violin
[11:45PM] Unfaithful
[2:30AM] Serpico
[5:30AM] The Writers' Room-Game of Thrones (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Pitch Black', followed by the movie 'The Day After Tomorrow'.
Musician Wynton Marsalis speaks during a lecture performance at Harvard University's Sanders Theatre in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014.
Photo by Elise Amendola
Helen Mirren has been honored as woman of the year by Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals, twerking as part of the traditional spoof roast on Thursday.
Mirren at first tried to sign the word "twerk," then let slip a curse word and danced. She said she's tried to twerk privately in her bedroom and having to do it in public was humiliating.
She also joked that being honored by Prince Charles as Dame of the British Empire at Buckingham Palace didn't come anywhere close to getting the ceremonial Hasting Pudding pot at Harvard. The festivities also included a parade.
Mirren, 68, won the 2007 best actress Oscar for her role as Queen Elizabeth II in "The Queen" and has been nominated on three other occasions. She also appeared in "Age of Consent, "Gosford Park" and "The Madness of King George."
Hasty Pudding Theatricals is America's oldest undergraduate drama troupe. It annually honors performers who have made a lasting and impressive contribution to entertainment. Emmy Award-winning actor Neil Patrick Harris will be honoured as man of the year Feb. 7.
Tim Matheson arrives at 2014 Santa Barbara International Film Festival - Opening Night on Thursday, Jan, 30, 2014 in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Photo by Richard Shotwell
Philomena Lee wistfully described losing her son to adoption and her search for him 50 years later, a quest depicted in the Oscar-nominated film starring award-winning actress Judi Dench.
Her experience is a powerful argument for Ireland to open the adoption records for thousands more mothers whose children ended up in U.S. cities such as St. Louis, Philadelphia, Boston and New York, Sen. Claire McCaskill said Thursday after a meeting with Lee.
The two women, joined by Lee's daughter, Jane Libberton, spoke to reporters on Capitol Hill about the Philomena Project and its efforts to reconcile families. The movie has drawn attention to the adoptions, and so did Lee's riveting story. She recounted some of it.
Lee was an unwed, pregnant teenager in 1952 when her Irish Catholic family sent her to the Sean Ross Abbey in Rosecrea, Ireland. She worked seven days a week but was allowed only an hour a day with her son, Anthony. After three years, the boy was sold for adoption to a St. Louis family.
Lee said she kept her secret for 50 years, then with the help of her daughter and BBC reporter Martin Sixsmith, they sought to find him.
It happens to nearly everyone: A song - let's say Abba's "Waterloo" - is stuck in your head and just won't go away.
Now science has not one but three ways to dig that dreaded earworm out. And none of them are too surprising, as researchers surveyed 18,000 residents of Finland and England and reported their findings in the journal PLOS One.
Researchers at the University of London found that earworm victims say you can listen to the complete song or sing it; you can just not let it bother you, or you can try using another song to shove out the offending tune.
"A tune that's not too catchy itself might do the trick," psychology researcher Lauren Stewart of the University of London said. The British national anthem, which Stewart concedes isn't the type to get stuck in the head, was mentioned most often by the Brits as an earworm replacement. Stewart wrote that 64 specific songs were mentioned as good replacement tunes, but not many repeaters. So the anthem topped the charts with six votes.
The other replacement tunes that got multiple votes include Culture Club's "Karma Chameleon" and the standard "Happy Birthday."
French actress Juliette Binoche, left, and Spanish actor Antonio Banderas pose for photographers before meeting with some of the 33 miners rescued from a 2010 mine cave-in in northern Chile, whose story will be made into a movie, in Santiago, Chile, Friday Jan. 31, 2014. Banderas and Binoche are starring in a film that dramatizes the cave-in at the mine in Chile's Atacama desert and the globally televised rescue of the miners that mesmerized millions across the globe.
Photo by Luis Hidalgo
Doctors said Thursday they could treat peanut allergy by feeding children the very thing their bodies reject, so building tolerance that could save a life in case of accidential ingestion.
Small doses of peanut powder taken over several months seemed to induce tolerance in children with the potentially deadly allergy, a research team wrote Wednesday in The Lancet medical journal.
After six months of treatment, dubbed oral immunotherapy or OIT, 84-91 percent of the children in a trial could safely tolerate daily doses of 800 mg (0.03 ounces) of peanut powder -- the equivalent of about five peanuts, wrote the team.
This was 25 times the amount they could tolerate before the therapy, and much larger than any accidental dose is likely to ever be.
They stressed that people should not try the treatment at home as more research was needed.
An African-led traditionalist group opposed to growing acceptance of homosexuality in the worldwide Anglican Communion has rejected a Church of England plea to review its Bible-based condemnation of gays.
Kenyan Archbishop Eliud Wabukala, chairman of the group, said it was "deeply troubling" that Anglicanism's mother church was trying to project a British debate about "that which God calls sin" onto world Anglicanism.
Church of England bishops agreed in London on Monday to hold a mediated dialogue throughout the 80-million member Communion to reflect on Biblical passages about gays in a way that could make Anglican churches more welcoming to them.
The Communion, which links Anglicans across and beyond the English-speaking world, has been split for years over gay rights and Biblical authority, especially since its U.S. branch - the Episcopal Church - ordained a gay bishop in 2003.
Several of its large African member churches have put up determined opposition to any reform and helped unite traditionalists in a large faction that at times has seemed ready to break away from the more liberal churches in Britain and North America.
Opera singer Renee Fleming who will sing the National Anthem before the NFL Super Bowl XLVIII football game holds the game ball during a press conference Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, in New York.
Police on Friday recovered the piece of cloth stained with the blood of the late Pope John Paul, a day after they found the stolen gold and glass case which once contained the relic.
They told a news conference in L'Aquila, east of Rome, that they found the fragment in the garage of two men who were detained for having stolen the reliquary last week.
Bishop Giovanni D'Ercole told the same news conference he had pieced together the reliquary and the cloth after police found them in bits on successive days.
The reliquary and a crucifix were stolen from the isolated mountain church of San Pietro della Ienca last weekend.
The cloth was a fragment of the cassock that John Paul was wearing on May 13, 1981 when he was shot in an assassination attempt.
French cyclist Robert Marchand aged 102, celebrates after beating his record for distance cycled in one hour, at the velodrome of Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, outside Paris, Friday, Jan. 31, 2014. The 102-year-old broke his own world record in the over-100s category Friday, riding 26.927 kilometers (16.7 miles) in one hour, more than 2.5 kilometers better than his previous best time in the race against the clock two years ago.
Photo by Thibault Camus
Britain's tiny outpost of Gibraltar has announced it will crack down on pesky Barbary macaque monkeys by exporting them off the Rock.
Beloved by tourists, the monkeys have started roaming into town, looting bins, foraging for food and frightening locals.
The Gibraltar government said it planned to capture some of the troublesome primates and prepare them for export in the spring.
"This marks the beginning of real progress in dealing with macaque numbers that have been allowed to get out of control," the Rock's environment minister, John Cortes, said in a statement Wednesday.
"By exporting and neutering we are controlling numbers without having to cull."
In this Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014 photo, a Hindu holy man lies on the thorn of bed during the annual month-long Hindu religious fair "Magh Mela" in Allahabad, India. Hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims take dips in the confluence, hoping to wash away sins during the month long festival.
Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh
New Species Discovered In Idaho and Montana Rivers
Cedar Sculpin
Say hello to the cedar sculpin, a previously unknown species of fish that was recently discovered living in the rivers of Idaho and Montana.
Researchers working at the U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station stumbled upon this rather homely little fellow - a species of bottom-dwelling freshwater sculpin - when they were taking stock of the species that were living in the Columbia River basin. It wasn't clear that it was actually a new species at first, since it looks very similar to another type of sculpin that lives in the area, called the shorthead sculpin. However, a comparison of the physical characteristics of both and an analysis of their DNA confirmed it.
The differences between this species and its distant relation are fairly minor at first glance - slightly different measurements of their head and pelvis, and differences in the arrangement of a row of pores between their anal fin and their tail fin. They also have a small, skin-covered spine just in front of their gills, and while many species of sculpin have these 'preopercular spines,' this is apparently something the other species of sculpin in the area don't have.
The cedar sculpin and its relatives may not be much to look at, but they're a valuable part of the local river ecology. There's a large focus on them as being a favourite food of sport fish like trout, thus their value to anglers. In fact, there are even fishing flies designed after them.
The Hollywood Park race track starting gate, at left, is shown with The Forum in the background Friday Jan. 31, 2014 in Inglewood, Calif. Billionaire Stan Kroenke, the owner of the St. Louis Rams, purchased a 60-acre area located between the Forum and Hollywood Park that could be used for an NFL stadium.
Photo by Nick Ut
Fisherman, Stephen Garnett, pulled in a long lost waterlogged camera with photos amazingly still intact, from the bottom of Lake Tahoe. As reported by KTVN Channel 2 News, Stephen's fishing trip not only netted lake trout, but also treasured memories belonging to Jana LeVitre, who had lost her digital camera in 2011 while sailing in the same lake.
LeVitre, a Utah woman, told The Salt Lake Tribune, that when her waterproof digital camera went overboard into the 150 to 200 feet deep water, "I realized I'd just have to remember [the pictures] in my mind. I never expected to see them again."
That is until last week when Stephen pulled the camera out of the lake's waters. "I'm lookin' in the water going, 'What is that,' and I thought it was a cell phone. So I pulled it out, no it's a camera," Garnett said. The fisherman brought home the Mackinaw he caught as well as the camera and showed it to his wife, Jamie Clark.
A photography hobbyist, Jamie had a special interest in the catch. "It has water in the little viewfinder where you see the pictures and it's rusty," Jamie explained. Then when she looked closer she found a functional memory card and excitedly recalled, "Oh my gosh! There's 1,065 photos on there."
Knowing the importance of photos, Jamie set out to get the shots, spanning from 2006 to September 2011, back to their rightful owner. She took to Facebook and posted two photos from each year hoping that someone in her network of friends would lead her to the mystery photographer.
Anna Gordy Gaye, the ex-wife of late soul legend Marvin Gaye and the older sister of Motown record label founder Berry Gordy Jr., died in Los Angeles on Friday at the age of 92, the family publicist said.
The songwriter and businesswoman was married to Gaye from 1964 to 1977 and helped compose two songs, "Flying High (In the Friendly Sky)" and "God is Love," on Gaye's classic album "What's Going On."
She was also the inspiration for his hit "Pride and Joy."
When Marvin Gaye was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, she attended the ceremony. The singer died in 1984 at the age of 44 after he was shot by his father.
The couple had one son, Marvin Gaye III.
Her last public appearance was with Berry Gordy in 2008. The rise of the Motown label and the role of the two siblings is chronicled in the hit Broadway show "Motown: The Musical."
Cacavas earned two Emmy nominations for original music for a series, one for a third-season episode of Kojak ("A Question of Answers," 1975) and one for the Joe Don Baker police series Eischied ("Only the Pretty Girls Die," part II, 1979). Cacavas also guest conducted for or had his music performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Boston Pops, the Manhattan Pops, the symphonies of Vancouver, Detroit, San Francisco, Milwaukee and Miami.
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