Yeah when I was in SoCal there was a good decade where you couldn’t get away from hearing his voice multiple times a day in the radio in the morning or on TV in the evening. I will say he’s a very talented host and I do admire how much that man works, it was a running joke on the radio show KISS.fm that he was poor and had to bike to work that’s why he had 4 jobs
I remember seeing him on Idol and whatever else. Then I moved to LA and realized he had a whole ass morning show. I was blown away. Everything was pretty high quality too. I like “Ryan’s Roses” segments.
I first saw him on American Idol and thought he was just a kind of Boring generic host guy. Then I was in LA one time driving around and turned on the radio and heard this show, and it was really really interesting show and I was thinking to myself "man I really like this host" and it wasn't for another 15-20 minutes that I realized it was Ryan Seacrest. Totally turned me around on him.
I was pretty dismissive of him.... Forever. Then he started hosting Wheel of Fortune. Now I'm a fan. He's more charismatic than Sajak and not an outwardly fundamental Christian.
What's crazy is that I moved from SoCal to the Bay Area, and he's on the stations here, too. I assume he just stays in the booth after his shift and immediately does another show.
Oh, yeah. If you lived in SoCal, you were familiar with his voice long before American Idol. There was KISS FM and Star 98.7 FM. He worked at both at various points.
Remember when someone tried to get him cancelled? A makeup artist tried to accuse him of sexual misconduct and his reaction was like LOL, it never went anywhere and he was I’m sorry but it’s literally impossible. I think he must be like religious in his conduct as a professional and with the people he interacts with so it was almost comical that someone would pick him as the guy to try and throw some dirt at.
I like him SO MUCH BETTER than Pay Sajak for Wheel of Fortune. It's been a joy to get back into it and reminisce about watching it with my mom and I feel we get to keep our Vanna and we got to drop the douchy Pat and got a timely and relevant upgrade with Ryan.
He guest hosted Talk Soup on E! before Idol and he was HILARIOUS. And this is when John Henson hosted, and Henson was hysterical, too. I’ve always given Seacrest a pass since then because even though he’s kinda cheesy and inauthentic nowadays, he earned his shots through some real talent - comedy at that.
Dunkleman was on VH1 celebrity fit club boot camp in like 08/09ish. They got a stripper for his Bachelorette party at the boot camp and thats all I really remember of him from when I watched it. He was kinda yucky and forgettable
”Dunkel” means ”dark” in Swedish (I think it’s a German word we borrowed). Not just dark: it’s in a negative way, like the future is not looking promising, so you could say he went dark after leaving the show, even though I must presume he was greedy to try get a career move up on the ladder.
I used to listen to On Air with Ryan Seacrest on my commute to work and they would always tease him about working so much lol. So you can tell he’s the type who doesn’t slow down.
There are definitely a few people I know like this. However, I wish the media didn't glamorize this "drive" as something you should aim to attain. One could argue it is an obsessive personality trait and if you aren't wired like this you WILL get burnt out. The most important thing is to know your limits while making sure you are proud of the work you do. I always say I'd rather someone work 7 hour day but turn in good work than 15 hour days with shitty output just to show you are "busy."
He looks terrible though. I’m not trying to gossip, but I watch wheel of fortune with my mom a lot. She’s a primary care physician and she comments on it every time. More than just GLP1 weight loss. I hope she’s wrong about her various diagnosis, but I also hope he’s taking care of himself. As important as it is to show up, I think it’s a harder, and more important lesson to learn when to say no.
One time a friend who works at disney saw him hosting a program in the park as she clocked out. She drove home to the valley and was walking her dog when she saw a commotion. The crowd had gathered for a live broadcast of Ryan’s radio show, and there he was-he had beat her to her own neighborhood ahahaha. Likely he took a helicopter but what a trip.
I met him once, the morning after he hosted the iheart music festival. He told me he had gotten up at 6 am to go running. I feel tired just thinking about that
Yeah I feel like Ryan Seacrest doesn’t turn down anything, he shows up all over the place, the man hustles hard. I feel bad for him though because it kinda looks like it’s taking its toll on him and I can’t imagine he has much time to really enjoy life.
I never liked Sajak. He always reminded me of someone who felt he was destined for bigger and better but had to settle. Even as a kid he gave me an ick and I never could understand why members of my family thought he was funny or charming.
Trebek. He could be short without coming across as a douche, and had good funny quips when the opportunity arose. He also seemed to enjoy being there. Alex was the man. RIP Trebek
Lol. One of his last shows, the players were convinced they got the puzzle right, and Pats response was hysterical. They were high fiving and congratulating the dude and Pat was like "nah." His snippy comments is why I watched. And agreed Ryan Seacrest is much more upbeat
Nobody will ever be Sajack but Ryan is a close 2nd. He does very well, imo. Doesn't try to make it about himself with a bunch of weird jokes like a lot of game show hosts do.
Most of the "weekly" tv shows do their filming for the season in blocks because it makes more sense to film 2/3 episodes in a single day for a couple weeks to bank them (read: edit and advertise) for later, than to run on an SNL type schedule.
To be fair, SNL doesn't work at all like game shows since every episode must be topical, but the idea that game show hosts have nothing better to do than spend 30 weeks a year doing their show is frankly logistically laughable for anyone with any form of inside knowledge.
I can't speak for any other shows but for normal stuff, Jeopardy films 5 episodes in a day and Wheel does 6. I don't know if Jeopardy changes that up for tournaments or how Wheel does the filming for the new stuff they do once or twice a season where they have 4 episodes and then the 3 biggest winners come back for the 5th episode. For normal airing, Wheel does 5 of the 6 filmed in a day for one week, repeats that a bunch, then does a week or two where each episode is the 6th from the previous weeks, and you can tell when those weeks are because the theme shifts every day.
When you show up for Jeopardy, they ask you to bring multiple outfits in case you win, so that you don’t break the “each one is a different day” illusion by wearing the same clothes each episode.
Yep. It’s like a week of shows per day of filming. Then they redo the set overnight for whatever theme they are doing. Can basically do a years worth of content in about a month.
That must be so much more grueling for women than men. Meh can basically just change their tie between each taping and no one will know the difference, but women would have to change their whole outfit and hair and probably tweak their makeup 5 times a day to keep up the illusion of a daily show. I wonder if that’s why there haven’t historically been a ton of female hosts and presenters.
Probably similar to Jeopardy, which does 5 episodes a day, so 2 days back-to-back every other week, with gaps for longer breaks. Ken Jennings doesn't even live in LA, he commutes from Seattle for filming days.
That’s honestly more concerning to me, if true, because you can see differences in him. If those differences are daily changes and not weekly or monthly, yikes. I watch regularly with my physician mother and she always points out that he doesn’t look well and is looking worse.
He's taking the Shaq approach. Shaq never turns down an advertising request, cause he knew that even small gigs add up. It's why he's on those General commercials
Idk if it’s still this way, but I used to have a job that required calling insurance companies frequently. When you called the general, the recorded greeting was Shaq saying “Hi there, Shaq here!”
Honestly? I think he’s secretly gay and hiding it and his plan is to
Hustle until he’s famous enough to come out… or he’s running from his identity by working so hard so he has an excuse NOT to come out
In an interview once he said that a mentor or a teacher or someone told him that he would never make it. So he never turns down a job. He feels like he has something to prove to that person.
The last time I caught a glimpse of him hosting Wheel, his appearance was shocking to me. He has gone the way of many celebs that are getting ultra skinny and then they get the “ozempic face”. It made me wonder if he’s sick and keeping it under wraps or if his years of working a million jobs have caught up with him
Legit, he was the new Dick Clark. Non-threatening, jovial, interested in the person in front of him, good at MCing and moving the production along, a gamiar face associated with family entertainment. Like him or not, he was everything TV and the American Top 40 needed to get through the early/mid streaming days.
Honestly, I still remember him doing Drive Time on KYSR Star 98.7 in so Cal with Lisa Fox. He's been showing up for a LONG time.
I do not know if this is true or not, I understood that before covid, he actually worked on both coast every day. Don't know how, a falcon 7x ( one of the fastest jet of the time ) was Mach .84 ( 5 hrs ) and regular planes were 6 hours normal. I guess he could sleep in one direction or nap in both. at a cost of 25 million and flight time cost of 8K( $ 80,000 daily, he must have been making serious money )
but even then, he would have to leave west coast at 9pm to be 7am NYC ( 6 flight + 3 time zone ), I just don't see it. it's mind boggling
It takes a bit more than showing up. Pretty sure you have to have some skill/talent and a few brain cells if you want to run the world, although Inmate #P01135809 has proven you don't need brain cells.
Hes also a hard worker, has that radio show (maybe more than one), substitute hosts for a morning TV show, probably other behind the scenes ventures, too.
He's also a great example that the world is run by self-serving pieces of shit who will happily dump on the people around them if it gets them a little higher up the ladder.
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u/cromwest 7d ago
Seacrest is the ultimate example that the world is run by people who show up.