Game Show Quotes

I got a call from my manager saying, 'Howie Mandel wants to talk to you.' And I'm a comic - big fan of all he's done. He was pitching me 'Caraoke Showdown', and I was just excited about it.

I like 'My Ugly Duckling,' 'High School Rapper,' 'Newlywed Diary,' and 'Radio Star.'

I think anyone that grew up in the '70s and '80s grew up with Bob Barker and Wink Martindale and I think that was just always... when you were a game show host, you were the man of the hour.

I think a Celebrity Survivor would be great.

Life's a wheel of fortune and y'all can't buy a vowel.

I'm always really confident when I play 'Jeopardy.'

I've been a fan of 'Countdown' for as long as I can remember, and this is a dream job.

Wheel of Fortune was an important SAT prep for me.

If I end up hosting 'Joker's Wild,' please shoot me.

I love watching 'Pointless.'

It is true that I do not wear shoes as the host of 'Bunk.' I want 'Bunk' to feel like there's a slight possibility that a confident homeless man just wondered into the studio and started hosting a game show.

The price for sitting and watching game shows and betting on lottery is that the vast majority of the viewers will never become rich

If I had been on 'Bowling for Dollars', I'd wind up owing them money.

I'm not a game-show contestant, I'm a U.S. senator.

And then I did one called High Rollers and that was a lot of fun.

I tried out for 'Jeopardy' once, when they came to Cleveland, but I didn't make it.

I love Steve Harvey on 'Family Feud.' I love 'Antiques Roadshow' and 'Fixer Upper.' Anything that's mind-numbing.

I'm patron of Children's Hospice South West - I would love to go and play 'Deal' at the children's hospice.

I looked at game show hosting as the bottom of the totem pole, one step away from infomercials. I never watched them myself. However, it's been a lot of fun.

Producer Michael Davies - who did 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' - offered me a TV show, but I turned it down. I wasn't negotiating: It just didn't sound like a good idea. Then he offered me another show, and I said, 'No thanks' again. When I heard about 'Win Ben Stein's Money,' I thought, 'OK, that sounds like a good idea.'

Jeopardy' is an institution, and people know what to expect from it and what the game's about.

The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show - listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context.

Getting 'Millionaire' right was as hard as writing 'Dirty Pretty Things.' Harder. In the pilots, contestants kept wanting to take the money; we had to find ways - the lifelines - of keeping them in the seat, answering the questions. But there is so much snobbery about popular culture. A game show just isn't valued as much as a novel.

Well, I refer to 'Celebrity Jeopardy ' as the short-bus 'Jeopardy,' because it is a lot easier. Like, there was a whole column basically naming stores in New York.

Anyone can become a game show host. It simply requires a giant, narcissistic ego and an inability to do anything else. The closest thing to school I did was looking in the mirror one hundred times a day and repeating, 'People should listen to you talk.'