🙋‍♂️ Larry Emdur Gives Us Some Tips For Getting On A Game Show

How do you get on a game show?

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nison. You've hosted a lot of game
shows seven, Hot Time fifty.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Currently you're doing the Chase and you're up for the
Gold Lugly A Luggy because of the Chase or is
it because of your work on the Morning Show?

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Well, I don't know. I think it's just because I've
been around for so long. Probably that might be all
these horrible shows. Well, Morning Show's been seventeen years, right,
so Chase has been the last couple of years. So
maybe it's I don't know.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
I remember before you got the Morning Show you said
to me, you said, that's it.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
I'm done.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
I'm done.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
I'm done.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
He's not going to be my future anymore. I'm just
going to do something else. Yes, And what are you
going to work down at JB High Fight?

Speaker 3 (00:36):
I'd be very good at I'm such a good people person.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
You know, you're too enthusiastic to work at JB High Fight.
Have you ever been in there? It's like they're doing
your favor. Sorry, mate, we don't have that. It's just
a mobile phone.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Can you imagine me working at JB High Fight. Someone's
looking at the telephones and I'm like up behind them,
going all right, put them in order from least expensive
to most expensive. I would be good, you know, I
would be good at it.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
I think you'd be good at any anything you turn
your hand at.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
But I look, got the history of you through TV shows,
game shows. How many TV game shows have you hosted?

Speaker 3 (01:08):
I reckon it doesn't it doesn't about it does.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
So off the top of your head, can you so? Obviously? So?

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Started with family double there yep, nineteen eighty eighty eight probably,
then the main event, then prices, right, cash bonanza over
on Channel nine. Chance or coincidence? I forget, which doesn't matter,
but it's not important now you know on details. I
know you're on details, Chance or coincident? Another series of prices, right,

(01:36):
Surprise wedding with Sonya Krueger. Yes, star Struck was another
star starting in competition, and that's where people would dress up.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yes, yes, but there'd be a lot of blackface involved
in that as well.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Well, there's a lot of dressing up there. There's a
lot of dressing up and people pretending to be other arts.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Be scared mar It's okay, I take full responsibility.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
You say it's.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Surprise a celebrity dog school. Oh who could ever forget
Celebrity Dog School. That's a rhetorical question. Everyone has forgotten celebrity.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Isn't it true that someone went and bought a dog
just to go on that show?

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Not only that, Jonesy someone didn't have a dog, so
we rented a dog for them. But I don't want
to take away from the magic of television.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Marry is worried. He said too much?

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah, Wheel of Fortune prices right? Three Celebrity Splash and
now the Chase and I reckon. There's a couple more
that I've my therapist has made me forget. Have you
ever been on a game show Sailor the Century one time?

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yeah? Right?

Speaker 3 (02:34):
And my question that got me knocked out? Which one
of the seven deadly sins starts with s? And? Of
course I said sex? Of course I said sex. But
apparently you'd know this. It's not sex?

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Then sloth? Sloth? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:50):
But I didn't know. And Glenn Ridges looking at me like,
you can't say sex on this show. I'm like, well,
I'm sorry?

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Did he say? Nice?

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Prize?

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Going through?

Speaker 2 (03:00):
How do I get on a game chef? I want
to get a be a contestant because I would imagine
you have to act like a right dumbo because they
don't want to give the money away.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Is that fair to say?

Speaker 3 (03:09):
What? Can you rephrase the question?

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Please? So you're going to act like a right dump
as a contestant.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
As a contestant, you've got to not know what you're
talking about. And then they go, we'll give it to
old mate because he doesn't know anything, and then he's
not going to win.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
The car or the No.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
I don't think that's entirely.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
They want or they want someone that's quite chatty.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
I think you're bitter and twisted. I don't think that's true. No, Well,
you know, on the chase, you want to pass a
little trivia quest to a little trivia test, to audition
properly on prices, right, you know, you want it to
be colorful and larger than life. And people would tell
lies to get on. This is the thing on Prices, right,
And they'd come through in the morning and the producers

(03:48):
would say, you know, why should we choose you as well? Well,
my grandfather went to the moon and all these great stories.
But because we were recording later, they'd forgotten the lies
that told to get on. So I'm like, uh, so
you you wrote a camel around Australia. What did I