That was our number one answer.
"‘Family Feud’ host Richard Dawson dies at 79" Associated Press, June 03, 2012
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Richard Dawson, the wisecracking British entertainer who was among the schemers in the 1960s TV comedy ‘‘Hogan’s Heroes’’ and a decade later began kissing thousands of female contestants as host of the game show ‘‘Family Feud’’ has died. He was 79.
Dawson, also known to TV fans as the Cockney prisoner-of-war Cpl. Peter Newkirk on ‘‘Hogan’s Heroes,’’ died Saturday night from complications related to esophageal cancer at Ronald Reagan Memorial Hospital, his son Gary said.
The game show, which initially ran from 1976 to 1985, pitted families
who tried to guess the most popular answers to poll questions such as
‘‘What do people give up when they go on a diet?’’
‘‘Saturday Night Live’’ mocked him in the 1970s, with Bill Murray portraying him as leering and nasty, even slapping one contestant (John Belushi) for getting too fresh.
Ah, the "True Hollywood Story."
The British-born actor already had gained fame as the fast-talking Newkirk in ‘‘Hogan’s Heroes,’’ the CBS comedy about prisoners in a Nazi POW camp who hoodwink their captors and run the place themselves.
I must confess I was always troubled by that show.
Here it was 20 years later and Jewwood was making sit-coms about the alleged atrocity?
Maybe it was their way of laughing at u$ all, if you know what I mean.
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That's one that has been forgotten.
Despite its unlikely premise, the show made the ratings top 10 in its first season, 1965-66, and ran until 1971.
An unlikely premise that came along just as Johnson was sending hundreds of thousands of young men to Vietnam -- some who would be held prisoner in POW camps. A subtle media manipulation of the mind? POW camps are fun and a big party, right?
Both ‘‘Hogan’s Heroes’’ and ‘‘Family Feud’’ have had a second life in recent years, the former on DVD reissues and the latter on cable television’s GSN, formerly known as the Game Show Network.
On Dawson’s last ‘‘Family Feud’’ in 1985, the studio audience honored him with a standing ovation, and he responded: ‘‘Please sit down. I have to do at least 30 minutes of fun and laughter and you make me want to cry.’’
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Combs killed himself.
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They didn't mention him being one of the stars on "Match Game."
Also see: Nazi War Criminal Outed in Ohio
Demjanjuk is dead, too.
