Paging The Price is Right, TPIR to the white courtesy phone please...

What replaces "have your pet spayed or neutered" as the out line? "I'm Roise O'Donnell, suck my dick, Bush!"

 

RIP? Hell, this show makes more money on casino machines than it does on the ratings. It will continue to be strong so long as the heads don't screw it up.

John O'Hurley is getting a lot of props. I'll throw out Kenny Mayne.

 

Kenny Mayne seems too self-absorbed. It has to be an older, non-threatening type.

Although Chris Berman might work.

 

You want a young-ish guy who skews older, but still has enough pep to not scare off the Gen X/Y douchebags like me. Bob Barker could shit his Depends every 15 minutes and blazing-hot UC Santa Barbara and Pepperdine girls would still hug him. His replacement isn't going to have the sweat equity to reproduce the kitch Barker has (if any sentient being in American television goes to the phallus microphone, for example, he'll have 15-year-old upper-middle class kids wearing Good Charlotte t-shirts from Hot Topic calling him a poser).

Drew Carey would be a good fit in that regard, assuming he can temper down his Drew-isms and not let the show be about him. That's a big assuming, of course.

 

I like Carey. Those who would want Berman to do the gig do so only in hopes they get his ass out of ESPN work.

Hey, if we're using that as a reason, then "the actual retail price is...BOO YAHHH!!"

Come on down, Stuart Scott.

 

Ellen DeGeneres?

 

Kenny Mayne should guest host Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?

I watched a few minutes of TPIR this morning while channel surfing. I hadn't seen the show in at least ten years. When did the contestants start ending their bids with "Bob"? "I'll bid $500, Bob." "I'll bid $400, Bob." "$399, Bob." "A dollar, Bob." Seriously, it was kind of annoying after awhile.

 

I never thought about John O'Hurley....he would be great on that show.

 

O'Hurley has been spoken to. I could easily accept him. The rest of the contenders leave me wanting something else.

Where's Burt Convy these days? Alive and well?

 

Burt died in 1991. The banana section mourns...

 

I could deal with Kenny Mayne. Maybe Drew Carey. Would love to see Jerry Seinfeld or Adam Sandler give it a try, but that won't happen.

 

Variety says they're talking to Drew Carey: http://www.variety.com/VR1117967336.html