Mike Richards Price is Right Audition

I caught that too. Little errors like that mean something when it's an audition tape.

You Nailed it. He knows what to do by Just didn’t execute all that well

@@skipps93 Yeah, there might have been something there that could have been molded into a better host, but... it's just so empty here that it isn't very watchable. There's no "Mike Richards hosting Price is Right" in this, it's "Mike Richards reads the Price is Right hosting guide," if that makes sense. It's nothing but a by-the-numbers progression of each thing that has to be said, Mike doesn't do anything to put his own spin on it.

Makes perfect sense. It was empty and awkward, like when someone try’s to be something they aren’t. He has a couple of good deliveries in there but overall the performance was a misfit.

He's no host! Fact: When he also exec-produced Let's Make Deal on CBS, he hardly showed up to that show's set, from what I've read.

Roger, Rich, Brandi, Lanisha...

No shit. I liked Mike and I saw him give us Purple Rain in game shows and he really shot himself in the foot on his podcast.

I’ll be nicer, he should host Pyramid for 65 episodes

@@mhoran21 GSN might find something else for him to host. He’s a good host and producer. Not many people in that business can do both!!!

@@mhoran21 I'll be extra nice, he should host 105 episodes of a US version of Divided

n o

He stepped down

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Who does he think he is? Matthew McConaughey?

@@junkboy555 IKR?!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Didn’t need too. He was the executive producer. That means he could have appointed himself any time he wanted because he was in charge. The whole “search” for a new host was nothing but publicity until he can take over. So happy it backfired

@@sit2go Uh... not when this was happening. This was before he became Exec Producer

Not much better than Carey

Ehh same thing. Its a showdown against two people playing for showcases

I'm glad that I'm not the only one who noticed that. I consider that a major sin not to know the difference between the Showcase and the Showcase Showdown. After all, it's a showdown at the wheel to determine who advances to the Showcase.

How did Drew do on his audition

@@adamsteinhart1504 Drew Carey had no audition. CBS hired him based solely on the fact that he was already hosting a game show called "Power of 10" in prime time. They were trying to negotiate a "package deal"...two shows for one contract. His hiring took Roger Dobkowitz, Bob Barker, and the rest of the staff by surprise!

This is literally only Bob's single area of problem, well for Mike.... there's a lot beyond the models.

@@MrGSfan Well there was his treatment of Rod as well from the summer of 02 onward......

Richards wasn't sexually harassing the models like Bob, but there was at least one pregnancy discrimination lawsuit filed against him (Brandi).

He did, just not in the way people expected.

@@ajk Beg your pardon??

😂😂😂😂

I didn’t know he auditioned for TPIR 😲

@@AnimatedIdiotGuide IF there is one.

From what I've gathered, he did two auditions. Whether either of them will ever be posted is another question.

I saw him do the stage show in 2004 and came away feeling like I had seen Bob's heir. Roger has said Todd was fantastic in his auditions aside from needing to diversify the way he explains each game (attributing this to his doing the stage show to a different audience every night.)

@@AnimatedIdiotGuide did he actually do it?

How did Drew Carey do with his audition

@@adamsteinhart1504 He didn't. CBS hired him because they had him hosting another show - The Power of 10 and liked him there.

Or a day

@@Paulygon Jeopardy tapes 5 shows in one day, so in reality he only lasted 1 day as host of Jeopardy. Twitter shut that man down FAST 😂

LMFAO!!!!!!!

There probably are at least a few visually impaired people who enjoy watching The Price Is Right.

Mike Richards is a no-talent host! Luckily, I didn't see him hosting Jeopardy! He must have been terrible there too! Mike Richards is a slimy jackalope. I've never met him, and I don't want to ever meet him. And to think, Drew Carey is friends with him. Drew should get better friends. Mike Richards is a racist, a bigot, and a sexual harasser.

He did a pretty good job. At least he seem interested. Drew is okay rough around the edges

Drew replaced Bob, lol.

I would really like to see Todd Newton, Dave Price, and even George Hamilton's audition tapes myself. If Mark L. Walberg was recorded doing his, then him too.

I think the plan was to have a new set anyway. I recall rather vividly not too long after Bob's last show aired, parts of the set (specifically the Big Doors and the signs at the back of the audience) were auctioned off for charity.

@@DXKramer You're right about that. I believe the Drew-era set was already in the planning phase when this tape was filmed.

Do you know who changed the show? Do you know who created the new intro? - Mike Richards.

Keep in mind here that this was only an audition tape. The prices were probably exaggerated on purpose. But I could be wrong.

See I remember him from Beauty And The Geek and I would have bought a FIAT from him in college. I’m a game show geek and the news of Mike Richards putting garbage out in the world is just horrible.

Fiat? LOL!

he’s still producing

@@act4666 yes, we know.

@ACT Not anymore, he's been FIRED !!!

@@jimmyboyzable I know!!!!

Rich Fields was good, but had a tendency to overdo it and needed to reign it in at times. I think George Gray is a bit more even keel and more consistent in delivery. Neither is on the same level as the great Johnny Olsen though.

@@ljthefro or the legendary Rod Roddy, RIP

​@@ljthefro They struck gold with Rod Roddy so soon after Johnny Olson, but Johnny was the best for this kind of show. No one today has that boisterous but natural energy anymore. George has a nice smooth voice though and does well for his style of announcing.

@@ljthefro Only time I thought Rich overdid it was on the intro to the show. Other than that I thought he was fantastic and much prefer him to George. I don’t think George is bad but he Sounds more of a fit for a nickelodeon show to me

Rich did return to his job as a meteorologist, working for CBS Los Angeles. Then he eventually moved down to Tampa to host the afternoon drive on Q105, WRBQ-FM before he and almost the rest of the on-air staff were let go due to COVID. He's now the spokesman for the Moving Families Foundation and its Moving Families Initiative. UPDATE: As of the date I originally wrote this comment, Rich is also now a meteorologist on WTSP-TV, CBS 10 Tampa Bay. ANOTHER UPDATE (08/31/23): Rich left WTSP some months ago and is now a motivational speaker.

They had wireless microphone available but Bob Barker insisted on keeping the old style.

@@jamesbraun9842 I can’t believe it took me 14 years just to found out this happened

Except it wasn’t Drew’s yet

@@stevekay1925 of course not.

It's because Bob chose to keep using a wired microphone since that was what he had used his entire career and was comfortable with. He could've switched to a wireless one if he wanted to.

He did. He was executive producer and totally effed that show up

@@hdayejr Jeopardy never got cancelled and I doubt it will ever

There's a lot of "what-if" there. The podcast came well after this, so if he had gotten Price, who knows whether or not he would have been involved in the podcast where he put his foot in his mouth.

@@SchuminWeb oh absolutely

Probably, the fact is he's a much better EP (the baggage we know of notwithstanding) than a host. Jeopardy will be just fine, as long whomever the new permanent host turns out to be is more than capable.

They should have read the copy out loud before going to tape, too many "televisions" close to each other.

Roger actually explains that in a Facebook post. "We wanted the show to not be influenced by Bob's reputation."

@@DXKramer I actually just saw that post the other day.

that applies to everything in broadcasting

Well, I'm sure other candidates who auditioned were nervous themselves. The difference between them and Mike was that Mike lacked major on-camera hosting experience outside of his college talk show. He couldn't get the beats down all that well and he lacked-besides charisma, a natural quality in game show hosts-enthusiasm in areas where it was badly needed (watch the It's in the Bag win again).

He hosted a reality show on the CW called Beauty and the Geek

Maybe?

No, they were given cash awards if they won their pricing games.

@@stixnatedogg $16,000 worth of cash awards, in that one game?

@@RetroWinnipeg No, in an interview with the old executive producer, contestants got like $100 if they made it on stage, $500 if they won their game, etc. He didn't remember exact amounts, but basically nothing life changing, but still enough to take the game seriously.

I suspect that is why whoever leaked this tape let it out, lol.

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Richards was fired from Jeopardy. I don't think he'll ever work again.

March 2007

There was no part two. Everyone who auditioned only did the first half of an episode. If they did a full episode, that would've delayed their schedule to tape actual episodes for air.

Bob Barker Left But Mike Richards When Before Drew Carey in October 2007

I feel like Drew Carey is on something when he’s hosting tpir

Me too. A lot of people shun him but he did a good job. If you remember correctky, he was a protege of Dick Clark.

Yeah I wish Rich was still on the show.

And now, Karma has come back to bite Mikey in the ass because now HE'S been fired from his EP position at "Jeopardy" & "Wheel of Fortune"

@@jimmyboyzable YAAAYYYYY!!!!! Now will Harry Friedman return to the shows?

@@MorganNye Good question.

@@wturner777 will he?

We know that. This was an audition tape made before Drew was hired.

March 2007

Yes, these were the auditions for the show when Bob Barker announced he retired. Among others who got them: Todd Newton and George Hamilton. Apparently Hamilton got very close to getting the gig before they saw Carey on Power of 10 and gave Carey the job instead.

@@fullervisiondotnet Mario Lopez also auditioned

@@fullervisiondotnet I believe two others who were given auditions were John O'Hurley and David Price (who I believe was doing weather for the CBS Morning show at the time).

@@TPIR_Fan_1972 In addition to Dave Price and John O'Hurley, other auditions included Mario Lopez and Mark Steines. After this group, they started moving to less formal auditions and Mark L. Walberg apparently did so well in his that Roger wanted to name him host, but CBS rejected him... due to his looks, of all things.

That’s what I keep telling people

Agreed

He’d get in more trouble than Pat.

And the girl on this show had a Purdue shirt on-- Brees' alum!!

This never aired on TV. It was only one of many audition tapes made to select the best candidate to be Price's new host.

Neversday

@@milesmorris9333 Air Date please

@@meowkitty5588 Like I said the first time, man, it never aired on TV. This was only an audition tape.

@Dave Perez I'd say before. They would've and had to have been working on overhauling the set after Bob retired.

No. I believe they were awarded $100 if they made it on stage

Roger Dobkowitz said in past interviews that no these prizes we're not awarded. They got $100 if they got on stage and a larger award for winning their game, showcase, etc. So similar to the touring stage show, they were still playing for something, just not the big enchilada.

@@SapinskiMath That makes enough sense. This show was never intended to air, and is designed to simulate the actual show in order to test out a potential new host. The contestants are essentially performers helping out with the production.

@@SchuminWeb well, they weren't winning the advertised prizes, yeah. But it wasn't like a pilot with a scripted set of players and outcomes. They were still playing for something, so they still had to take it seriously.

Rich Fields

it was Rich Fields before George Gray took over now the late Rich Jefferies did some announcing in the 80's after Johnny Olson passed away

@@MatthewHendrixrockinman1 Gene Wood also helped for a bit.

@@wturner777 that's very true

After Johnny Olson, then Rod Roddy, then Rich Fields and now, George Gray. I had no respect for George Gray.

I don’t think Alex Trebek or Pat hosted the price is right for auditions.

@@MorganNye I meant who Mike is going to try to replace

@@chickena-mirror1620 on the price is right or jeopardy?

@Will N I’ve seen that show since 2010 on KZhead.

Bob Barker and Pat Sajak are still alive.

Trying to put bias aside, it wasn’t horrible but he wasn’t great. Someone else nailed it when they said It’s like he knows what to do but doesn’t execute well. It felt forced and just not like a natural fit.

From the recent news about him, we can conclude he's a horrible person. That's not the reason why I thought this audition was bad, however. Roger Dobkowitz gave the perfect description of his performance, basically a college student doing his best impression of a game show host. He knows what he's doing but he's not doing it well. I could tell just from the way he entered on stage that this wasn't going to be very good.

Being a successful game show host requires that most ineffable quality: charisma. It’s something you either have or you don’t. No matter how much “Toastmasters”-style training a guy like Richards likely availed himself of, it can’t be learned or acquired. The good hosts naturally had it and honed it, but Richards honestly and unbiasedly lacks it.

@@chuckmarmo6244 Exactly. Which is why he seems to know what to do but just doesn’t pull it off well.

He lacks the stage presence to carry the show and it feels limp and empty as a result. I don't want to use the word "robotic" but look at the way he breezes through the win on It's In The Bag in this tape. There's no life to it at all.

About as smooth as a lizard's skin.

Because this was only an audition tape. This was solely for the purposes of choosing a new host for Price. These were never intended for public release.

@@milesmorris9333 And that's why Drew Carey took over.

@@Naminski1a Drew might not be Bob but he's just as good and he's a really funny guy

i guess they had the ball on bobs replacement asap

@@MatthewHendrixrockinman1 Exactly the point. I really like Drew Carey as host because he's not trying to be like anyone else, especially Bob Barker. He's just being himself and made it his own show.

We're glad you changed your mind.