If they’re not laughing, clapping, or acting enthusiastic enough, would-be contestants are crossed off Blits’s list.ģ. Stan Blits, who has selected the contestants on The Price Is Right for 35 years, cruises the line of 300 hopefuls waiting to get into the taping, and then watches their energy during the show - including through the breaks. Carey’s good-natured ribbing of the audience isn’t only fun to see (the jokes can skew a bit more adult than what’s onscreen), but it also serves a purpose for one of the producers. In between segments, as the crew swaps out the games, Carey entertains the audience with some crowd-work - a tradition started by Bob Barker. At-home audiences are missing one of the best parts of the show. If you never saw anybody type, you’d think, ‘Oh my God.

“But once you get used to it, it’s not so bad,” Carey told Rotten Tomatoes. Carey asked Davies for his blessing to host both shows, which Davies granted - but he also warned Carey that The Price Is Right is really hard because there’s so much going on. It was after shooting the pilot for Davies’s Power of 10 that Carey was approached by CBS to host The Price Is Right. This, according to game-show powerhouse producer Michael Davies ( Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, The Newlywed Game). The Price Is Right is one of the harder game shows to host. After attending a taping and chatting with host Drew Carey and executive producer Mike Richards, we have new insight into a TV institution that seems to have stayed the same for 43 years.ġ.

It’s fall TV time, and in addition to the plethora of shows returning and premiering in primetime this month, we visited the set of The Price Is Right, the longest-running game show in television history.

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