Curated playlist

American game show hosts

Dwyane WadeDwyane Wade's sister tricked him into a car ride at age eight. She said movies but took him to live with their father.
Johnny CarsonUri Geller failed on Johnny Carson's show, and it made him famous. Carson had asked James Randi for help.
Brad RutterBrad Rutter went nearly two decades without losing a TV quiz game to a human opponent. He once worked at a record store.
Alec BaldwinAlec Baldwin has hosted Saturday Night Live more often than anyone else in the show's history. As of 2017 he had done it 17 times, and the first came in 1990. Born Alexander Rae Baldwin III on the 3rd of April 1958, he has worked as a film…
Snoop DoggSnoop Dogg bought Death Row Records, the label that launched his career, in February 2022. It took nearly three decades.
Walter CronkiteWalter Cronkite took off his glasses and told America President Kennedy had died.
Ken JenningsKen Jennings's 74-game quiz show winning streak ended when he answered FedEx to an H&R Block question.
Zooey DeschanelZooey Deschanel was named after a character in a book. That character is Zooey Glass, the protagonist of J. D. Salinger's 1961 novella Franny and Zooey. The real Zooey was born on the 17th of January 1980 and grew up to become an American…
Guy FieriGuy Fieri, an American restaurateur, author and television presenter, was called the "face of the network" by The New York Times in 2010. The network was Food Network. The same article said he brought an "element of rowdy, mass-market…
Chris JerichoChris Jericho began his run in the World Wrestling Federation with a ticking clock. For weeks in 1999, a countdown to the new millennium kept appearing on the company's programming. Jericho later said the idea came from a clock he had…
Jesse VenturaJesse Ventura, born James George Janos, stood before a crowd in November 1998 and declared, "We shocked the world!" He had a point. A man known to millions as a loud, villain-loving wrestling announcer had just won the governor's office of…