The perfect smile, cool hair and enough charm to mentally remove the pants of anyone in your presence. These seem to be the qualifications of a great game show host. It also helps if you have a cool catch phrase, pockets filled with fake money that look real and an amazing tolerance for unintelligent. What most people don't know is that great game show hosts have the ability to suck a person's soul from their body, but they only use that power if it's absolutely necessary
#10 Wink Martindale (Tic-Tac-Dough) - When you're given the nickname "Wink" you either become a game show host or you die trying. Martindale has hosted 13 game shows throughout his illustrious career and he was the only man capable of protecting humans from the deadly Tic-Tac-Dough dragon.
#9 Chuck Woolery (Scrabble/Love Connection) - The man who coined the phrase, "We'll be back in two and two," Woolery was the biggest pimp in game show history. Chuck was also one half of musical duo "The Avant-Garde" which had one-hit wonder success in 1968 with the top 40 pop hit "Naturally Stoned."
#8 Gene Rayburn (The Match Game) - Born Eugene Rubessa, Rayburn chose his stage name by randomly pointing at a page in the telephone book, after being told Rubessa sounded "too Italian." The quintessiential host of The Match Game he also frequently filled in for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show.
#7 Monte Hall (Let's Make A Deal) - Not only was Hall the host of Let's Make a Deal, but he also the co-creator and producer. These days Hall's name is used in a probability puzzle known as the "Monty Hall problem" which examines the counter-intuitive effect of switching one's choice of doors, one of which hides a prize, if "Monty" reveals an unwanted item behind a door the player didn't choose.
#6 Bob Eubanks (The Newlywed Game) - Considered one of the "most loveable and bankable" game show host of all time, Bob coined the famous phrase "Makin' Whooppe." Eubanks was also the manager of country music legends Dolly Parton and Barbara Mandrell.
#5 Pat Sajak (Wheel Of Fortune) - Sajak started out as a weatherman before he replaced Chuck Woolery as the host of Wheel Of Fortune in 1981 thanks to Merv Griffin. Sajak left the show temporarily in 1989 to host his own late night talk show but quickly returned in 1990 realizing that life is better with Vanna White.
#4 Richard Dawson (Family Feud) - The Wilt Chamberlain of game show hosts, Dawson was famous for his witty one-liners and his need to kiss every woman that appeared on the show... even the ugly ones.
#3 Dick Clark (25,000 Pyramid) - Before Pyramid, Clark had two brief runs as a quiz-show host, presiding over The Object Is and then Missing Links where Clark ironically replaced Ed McMahon. And if you listen closely, you can still hear Clark saying, "Ready, go."
#2 Alex Trebek (Jeopardy) - One of the most famous mustache's in entertainment history, Trebek hosted countless game shows including The Wizard of Odds and The $128,000 Question before striking game show gold with Jeopardy in 1984. Now he enjoys drinking a lot of wine and mocking people when they're wrong.
#1 Bob Barker (The Price Is Right) - For over 50 years, Bob stole the hearts of elderly women and lonely housewives all across America while bringing us the Barker Beauties and making sure America has its pets spayed or neutered. It seems like NASA really should spend some time and resources to try and figure out how to make Bob live forever.
