Two shows at once

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I’m looking for examples of cases where a performer has been a regular on two TV shows simultaneously. Some examples I’ve come up with are:

Drew Carey in The Drew Carey Show and Whose Line Is It Anyway

Not sure about this one, it was a long time ago – I seem to remember that Bruno Gerrussi was in The Beachcombers and had a cooking show at the same time. For folks who don’t recognize the names, I grew up near the border and watched a lot of Canadian TV shows.

Dennis Miller has his own HBO show and is a regular on Monday Night Football.

Anybody know of others?

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Many.

The champion was Arthur Godfrey. For a short time in 1950, he was on “The Arthur Godfrey Show,” “Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts,” and “Arthur Godfrey and His Ukelele” (which aired two nights a week, so you could see him four nights a week). The third show was dropped, but the other two ran through most of the 50s.

Jim Backus was on “Gilligan’s Island” and “Mr. Magoo” in the very same time slot.

Goldie Hawn appeared in both “Laugh-In” and “Good Morning, World.”

Richard Andrews played the same character on both “The Six Million Dollar Man” and “The Bionic Woman.” Frank Cady did the same as Mr. Drucker in “Petticoat Junction” and “Green Acres.”

Howard Cosell was on “Monday Night Football” and “Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell” (Not to be confused with the NBC series).

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Wayne Brady from Whose Line now has another show

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Wayne Brady from Whose Line now has another show

this will be a double post. I’m sorry but I forgot to say that it was the Wayne Brady Show

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flang bung it!!!

And Ryan Stiles also appears on Whose Line and the Drew Carey Show. There must be something about Whose Line.

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That “something” would be how it only takes an hour or two a week to do it. The beauty of improv is that there’s no rehearsals!

And Emeril has two shows at the moment. Don’t expect that to last.

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There was a time you could see three shows with Bea Benadaret in one week.

  1. Petticoat Junction.
  2. Flintstones (voice of Wilma)
  3. Burns and Allen (in reruns). She had a regular role as Blanche, a neighbor.
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For just two shows, there’s also Bob Saget - “Full House” and “America’s Funniest Home Videos”.

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Wayne Knight had reoccurring roles simultaneously on both Seinfeld where he played Newman; and Third Rock from the Sun where he appeared as Police Officer Don Leslie Orville.

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Jimmy Kimmel(sp?) at one time was doing Win Ben Steins Money, The Man Show and Fox’s NFL Pregame Show.

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For many years Victoria Rowell was on The Young And The Restless and Diagnosis Murder.

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You think so? Hah…

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Colin Mochrie from Whose line is it anyway also appeared in Blackfly for the past two years. This year he’ll be showing up on This Hour has 22 Minutes to replace Rick Mercer.

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Oh yeah-- Mochrie also appeared in the UK version of Whose Line-- but I don’t know when that’s taped.

And don’t forget Regis “I’m saving the network” Philbin.

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You forgot to mention that he was the first person to play the same character on two different shows on different networks at the same time.

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Bill Cosby did a bunch of shows that aired during the same season - though I can’t remember which ones and when. Anybody?

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Well, Kelsey Grammer of course–Fraiser and Sideshow Bob.

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The lovely and talented Khandi Alexander had a recurring role as Peter Benton’s sister on ER at the same time she was a regular on Newsradio.

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I didn’t because he wasn’t. Note my post, which mentioned Jim Backus and Goldie Hawn. I mentioned Backus had two shows in the same time slot, which should have made it obvious he was on two different networks. He may even have been the first, but I’d need to confirm that.

I don’t think reruns should count. Then any actor who appears in two shows qualifies.

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Does Adam Arkin count for playing Adam the Mountain Man in Northern Exposure at the same time he was doing Chicago Hope?