# Remember the Straight Dope TV show? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 7, 1999, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-straight-dope-tv-show/3795 "1999-10-07T03:59:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skull\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Skull\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skull_Boy)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 1999, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-straight-dope-tv-show/3795/1 "1999-10-07T03:59:00Z")
Theres an awful lot of talk about the mysterious Cecil Adams existance (or lack of). Well okay, then who was the bald, occasionally blue guy who hosted the TV show? Incidently, I think whoever he was he rebounded after the shows cancellation with a commercial for the (ironcally short lived) Atari Jaguar (had light bulbs pasted to his head?). ---
**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 1999, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-straight-dope-tv-show/3795/2 "1999-10-07T04:37:00Z")
Although I, too, associate Cecil with the guy from the A&E _The Straight Dope_ TV series, I recall that he never claimed to be the Man. In fact, he always referred to Cecil in the third person, making it clear that the two were not one. * * * Cessandra [My Homepage](http://www.shsu.edu/~stdmed17/Home.html) [The RHPS: Website For Virgins](http://www.shsu.edu/~stdmed17/RockyHome.html) **Both Updated More Often Than This Sig** ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 1999, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-straight-dope-tv-show/3795/3 "1999-10-07T05:40:00Z")
I believe the show’s host’s name was Mike Lukas. I always imagine Unka Cece as looking like the guy, BTW. * * * ‘They couldn’t hit an Elephant from this dist…!’ Last words of General John Sedgwick ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 1999, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-straight-dope-tv-show/3795/4 "1999-10-07T13:14:00Z")
Correct, Mike Lukas was the show’s host. He does stand-up comedy routines around Chicago (he was in NY briefly, I believe, but now is back in Chi.) Mike worked extensively with Ed on the show’s format, and he told me that he had some conversations with Cecil as well. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 1999, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-straight-dope-tv-show/3795/5 "1999-10-07T13:16:00Z")
I always imagined Cecil to look like Ed Asner! ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 1999, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-straight-dope-tv-show/3795/6 "1999-10-07T13:44:00Z")
Oh, man! Who could forget the Straight Dope TV show! Ed Zotti’s trenchant, zippy monologues…those hilarious sketches with CDex and TubaDiva and Nickrz and JillGat playing the bickering Division Street tenement couples…the custard pie-fights…and, of course, the lovely, leggy Straight Dope Dancers! Anybody tape any of 'em? * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 1999, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-straight-dope-tv-show/3795/7 "1999-10-07T14:15:00Z")
Yeah, Uke! And don’t forget those two old codgers in the balcony who had amusing, yet caustic commentary throughout the entire show… Oh wait. That’s _ **The Muppet Show** _! Sorry… * * * Yer pal, Satan ---
**Author:** ![Nickrz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@Nickrz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickrz)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 1999, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-straight-dope-tv-show/3795/8 "1999-10-08T00:26:00Z")
If an idle mind is the Devil’s playground, this board is his tilt-a-whirl. ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 1999, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-straight-dope-tv-show/3795/9 "1999-10-08T05:26:00Z")
Loved the Straight Dope show on A&E watched it all the time (course I had the books before hand… though not the internet) I think it didnt go because people dont want information/education shows (though they certainly played up the entertainment/grab attention bit) but damn it was funny!!! Wish I could have it back _sad_ as a side note I always knew the blue bald guy wasnt Cecil… they made that clear enough. The Straight Dope is something that my Dad and I have in common. He is a Biologist… and I am a wannabe biologist… we share the books and talk about the topics all the time. gives us great bonding time… Thank ya Unca CeCe!!! * * * The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I’m left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can’t quite remember. -George Carlin ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 1999, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-straight-dope-tv-show/3795/10 "1999-10-09T00:12:00Z")
Cessandra wrote: > [@](#): > > Although I, too, associate Cecil with the guy from the A&E The Straight Dope TV series, I recall that he never claimed to be the Man. In fact, he always referred to Cecil in the third person, making it clear that the two were not one. Only thing is, Cecil often refers to _himself_ in the third person, too! * * * The truth, as always, is more complicated than that.