Mike Rowe
Mike Rowe
Michael Gregory Roweis an American television host and narrator, actor and former opera singer, best known for his work on the Discovery Channel series Dirty Jobs and as the main presenter of Somebody's Gotta Do It on CNN. He can also be heard as narrator on a variety of series such as Deadliest Catch, and has appeared on commercials for Ford Motor Company...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth18 March 1962
CityBaltimore, MD
CountryUnited States of America
People with dirty jobs are happier than you think. As a group, they're the happiest people I know.
The thing that makes 'Dirty Jobs' different is that it's one of the few shows that portrays work in a way that doesn't highlight the drudgery. Instead, it highlights the humor.
It's funny; it's a real balancing act. In TV, everybody's talking about authenticity. In order to make 'Dirty Jobs' authentic, I really can't be overly informed. The minute I am, I become a host It's a very tricky business paying a tribute to work, because TV is very bad at it.
Not all knowledge comes from college.
I can say the willingness to get dirty has always defined us as an nation, and it's a hallmark of hard work and a hallmark of fun, and dirt is not the enemy.
Dirt used to be a badge of honor. Dirt used to look like work. But we've scrubbed the dirt off the face of work, and consequently we've created this suspicion of anything that's too dirty.
This is a great dirty job for us. It's in the kinder, gentler area.
Everything here is messy. Like most things, you can keep yourself pretty clean if you try, but the people who are really good at it and really love it are usually up to their arms in it.
I won a lot of money for them last year and they probably put twice as much back into it. I think you could win every race and it would be hard to break even. But a person up here, we're in it for the hobby.
FYI, the Honey Truck driver, a great guy named Les, used to be a psychiatrist. He quit his practice to clean septic tanks for a living.
If they are, they're in the wrong business.
We passed, we shared the ball and we were unselfish. I thought that today would have been 'me, me, me.' I'm glad it wasn't. There were a lot of kids passing the ball, being unselfish, which for our program is huge.
The band makes sure that nobody has more fun than we do. We have lots of fun. I'm not kidding. You stick a microphone in front of us, and we just have a ball.
It's great. Here, you get to eat your mistakes. Chocolate makes things better, that's why this is so great. It makes life just a little bit better for just about everybody.