Pat Sajak
Pat Sajak
Pat Sajakis an American television personality, former weatherman, actor and talk show host, best known as the host of the American television game show Wheel of Fortune...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGame Show Host
Date of Birth26 October 1946
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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There's something to be said for treating it as a career, and not as sort of this celebrity cauldron,
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If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.
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I guess I can be moderately amusing at times, but the idea of standing up in front of 200 people with beers is just too frightening.
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Baseball fans west of New York City might hate the Yankees, but Yankee-hating is a good thing for the sport. Stadiums sell out, ratings go up and a team's own shortcomings can be blamed on someone else.
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A celebrity's opinion should not be given any more weight than anyone else's, unless there is some special expertise the celebrity brings to a subject. That expertise should involve real life, as opposed to having once portrayed a doctor or a mayor or a scientist in a movie or on a television show.
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A celebrity has just as much right to speak out as people who hold real jobs. This is America, after all, and you should not be precluded from voicing your opinions just because you sing songs, mouth other peoples' words on a sitcom or, for that matter, spin a giant multi-colored wheel on a game show.
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It's fairly low-key: 'Hey, it's Pat,' ... I can still shop and go on with my life.
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It seems there is something about anonymity which brings out the worst in us. If you doubt that, come with me into the often-weird world of Internet chat rooms and message boards.
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When I ask my Liberal friends why they loathe President Bush so deeply (not his policies or his politics, but the man himself), I am often told by them that Conservatives 'started it' by loathing Bill Clinton.
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When you're on local TV in LA, in a way you're auditioning every night, because producers are sitting at home watching the news in their underwear like everybody else, ... Merv called and said, 'I'm doing a game show.' I said, 'Well, maybe.'
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This is a tough time for our men and women, and they are doing some tough work, and not always with universal appreciation for what they are doing. This is our way of reminding Americans of the great work they do and our way of showing a little appreciation and, hopefully, spreading a little money their way.
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I respect your opinion. And don't forget to put that tooth under your pillow tonight.
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I'm talking about O.J. Simpson. As he prowls the nation's golf courses searching for the real murderers of his ex-wife, let us not forget that it was the Simpson saga that taught TV news directors an important lesson: a Big Story can generate big numbers and big profits.
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Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.