Except for clips, I’ve not seen Wheel of Fortune since the 80’s(my friend’s Dad was on and won a car), but it seems to me Sajak is not so hard to replace.
Anyone remember his talk show? I do. His personality did not exactly make it pop off the screen.
One thing I find interesting is that Sajak was one of the jockeys that followed Adrian Cronauer’s stint as a DJ at AFVN radio Saigon and utilized Cronauer’s famous greeting each morning (“GOOOOOOOOOOOD MORNING VIETNAM!!!”). I have to wonder if he was a bit more zany and unconventional as a radio DJ then he was as a TV host.
I wonder if Chuck Woolery is available.
Vanna White OTOH has zero plans to retire. I don’t know why should ever would. She makes $4 million a season, and they reportedly shoot a month’s worth of episodes in just 4 days. That’s a job you hold onto 'til the wheels fall off.
Sajak strikes a balance between required blandness and witty ripostes that not everyone can do. (Although the Canadian Family Feud host is hilarious and does it better, as does Steve Harvey.)
Not only was his spell long, it was a significant sentence. A prolonged period, even. To turn a phrase.
I thought of that since he hosted it.
I just saw he was 82 years old. Yeah, he probably won’t come back out for that.
She seems to be the online presence. But I doubt she’ll stay long after Pat retires. Vanna’s stint shows how hard Pat’s job is. He does seem to be getting snarkier as the years pass, though.
(I like both shows, though I gave up watching Jeopardy after I was on. The fantasy was gone.)
Do they film in big blocks, then, like 20-24 straight days? I wonder how often they have to come in.
This rivals, or beats, the Simpsons voice cast, who earn a fortune for a few weeks work.
This deserves a thread of explanation.
May I be the first to nominate Mayim Bialik as either Pat’s or Vanna’s replacement?
They shoot 6 episodes a day for 4 days is what I read. Then the editors go to work and Pat and Vanna get 3 weeks off.
Nice. I think it would be easier to host this show than Jeopardy, which is non-stop reading.
Sheldon, the Ceramic Dalmatian will be sad…
(Yes, he had a name, and a coworker told me that he still appears in shots of the WOF studio.)
Sajak’s final paycheck may either be in the form of a gift certificate or kept on account. His choice.
Good thing he wasn’t hosting the old version of “The Price is Right”. Then he’d have to purchase his going away portfolio.
I seem to remember him disparaging the show a long time ago. He said something about, if you listen closely enough you can hear brain cells hitting the floor.
She should replace Vanna but only if she dresses as Amy Farrah Fowler.
Sorry, he disparaged Wheel of Fortune? I kind of suspect he ended up not doing the job he really wanted to do in Hollywood…but getting paid big-time so who really cares?
I wouldn’t disparage my only source of massive income.
I’m actually kind of surprised Wheel of Fortune has been so popular. I mean, it’s not that original or interesting.
Trivia: Cronauer started using the greeting as a way to fill airtime while preparing to start his program. My source is a radio interview with Cronauer, in which he performed the greeting as he would have on AFVN; when the greeting was over, he described what he would have been doing in the booth up to the point of starting to play a record. The actual greeting was much longer than what Robin Williams said.
Unfortunately, this particular interview is not among the host’s archives.
And he certainly wasn’t the goofy radio guy shown in the movie. What he did do was play the music the troops wanted instead of what was played before. I did love the movie at the time but it was complete fiction.
What was on air in the movie was closer to the pirate radio show by Dave Rabbit.