No Go Game Show, Host Hair

No Go Game Show

With the rumor of Matt Lauer, of the Today Show, taking over hosting duties of Jeopardy from Alex Trebek, the way Meredith Viera did with Who Wants to be a Millionaire from Regis Philbin, game show story time returned.  For awhile, DP was on the short list of who to contact should a game show hosting gig open up.

 When Bob Barker of The Price Is Right gave the go ahead for Dan as one of his possible replacements, Dan was busy covering the NBA Finals in San Antonio.  PIR producers wanted to do a set test with DP and even offered to make a set in San Antonio for screen test.  What they wouldn’t do is tell Dan what he would make.  When he inquired, the response was that they would tell him once he accepted the job.  In whose world does that work other than Hollywood?  

Needless to say, he passed.  Nowadays the only game shows DP would consider would be Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune, the mother of Wheel of Punishment.  Dan would freshen up WOF just a bit to be more viewer friendly.  Vanna - bye bye.  Bring in two new shorties, one for vowels, the other for consonants.  Gotta give the audience what they want.

Host Hair
Who has better host hair?  Alex Trebek, Fake Alex Trebek, Matt Lauer, Dan Patrick or Bob Barker? All have hair helpers of one type or another.  Gotta go with go big or go home.